Texas Farm Bureau names 2025-26 garden grant recipients
By Emmy Powell Communications Specialist Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) named the recipients of the Learning From the Ground Up garden grants for 2025-2026. Forty-five grants, totaling $22,500, were awarded to schools across Texas for projects [...]
Armyworms march across Texas hayfields, pastures
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor Armyworms routinely make the march across Texas hayfields every fall, but this summer’s increased rainfall [...]
Texas congressman introduces bill to reform Endangered Species Act
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor Congress created the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973 to help prevent species of fish, wildlife [...]
TPWD releases CWD emergency rule update
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor After the recent discovery of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in six deer-breeding facilities in Texas, an [...]
Beef exports to China continue to grow
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor China can’t get enough of American beef, according to a July International Agricultural Trade Report by [...]
Researcher focuses on human, livestock tickborne illness
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor One Texas A&M AgriLife Research entomologist is fulfilling a lifelong interest in human and animal [...]
Invasive hammerhead flatworms found in Lamar County
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor Recent findings of the hammerhead flatworm in Lamar County, located in the northeast corner of [...]
First animal anthrax case of 2021 confirmed in South Texas
By Jennifer Whitlock Field Editor An anthrax case was recently confirmed in a captive white-tailed deer herd in Val Verde [...]
WHIP, WHIP+ vital for farmers facing natural disaster losses
Farmers and ranchers who suffer losses from natural disasters need financial certainty. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Congressional Relations Director [...]