CRP sign-up deadline approaches
One of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most competitive Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) sign-up periods in history is approaching [...]
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02, 2016
Meat exports in 2015 suffered with strong U.S. dollar
Numbers are in and the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) reports pork exports dropped by 2 percent and beef exports [...]
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02, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court to consider hearing AFBF challenge to Chesapeake Bay plan
The eight remaining U.S. Supreme Court justices will consider Friday whether to hear the American Farm Bureau Federation's (AFBF) challenge [...]
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02, 2016
Low prices, aphids weigh on plant decisions
By Jessica Domel News Editor Plows and planters are already rolling across parts of Texas. Although what goes in the [...]
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02, 2016
Early voting for primaries begins Tuesday
Voters across Texas will weigh in on which candidates they’d like to see on ballots this November starting Tuesday. Early [...]
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02, 2016
McCarthy defends EPA on WOTUS, pesticides
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Gina McCarthy put up a stout defense at a House Committee on Agriculture hearing on [...]
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02, 2016
President’s proposed budget mixed for agriculture
The president’s proposed budget provides a mixed bag for agriculture, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The budget proposal [...]
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02, 2016
Cotton growers keep upbeat outlook in desperate times
Though it looks bleak for American cotton growers to get cottonseed listed as an “other oilseed,” cotton-growing groups are not [...]
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02, 2016
AgriLife conducts agricultural rate survey
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is researching the prices that custom agricultural operations charge. Categories that fall in these custom [...]
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02, 2016
Changes announced to livestock trading
Changes will soon be made in the live and feeder cattle and lean hog markets after industry representatives expressed concerns [...]