TFB garden grants available to Texas classrooms
Emmy Powell Communications Specialist Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) garden grant applications are now open to help educators cultivate a lifelong interest for agriculture in students. TFB’s Learning from the Ground Up Garden Grant Program [...]
New crop insurance options for farmers in 2021
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has new crop insurance coverage options this year designed [...]
MOU would give authority over GE animals to USDA
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Before leaving office, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Public Health Service Director Adm. [...]
BASF-PCCA collaboration offers cotton bale traceability
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Farmers now have a tool to track their sustainable BASF e3 cotton bales as they [...]
TFB member appointed to national task force on ag air quality
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Williamson County Farm Bureau (CFB) President Bob Avant, along with three other Texans, was recently [...]
USDA expands CFAP to contract growers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) updated the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) to provide relief to more farmers and [...]
Call for rural broadband gains traction in legislature
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The COVID-19 pandemic brought many issues to the forefront. For rural Texans, one of the [...]
Annual cotton acreage survey shows slight decline
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor U.S. cotton farmers indicate they will plant fewer acres of cotton in 2021 than the [...]
Drought, weather impacting goose behavior, hunting
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter Texas hunters may have to do a bit more scouting to bag a goose this [...]