World Cotton Day highlights cotton’s positive impact
By Julie Tomascik Editor Cotton is woven into the state and national economies, and on World Cotton Day, the focus is on the crop’s positive impact and importance as a global commodity. World Cotton Day, [...]
Mexico plans to phase out GMO corn by 2024
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Texas’ biggest trading partner, Mexico, is set to phase out genetically modified corn for human [...]
Applications open for S.M. True Jr. Agricultural Scholar Award
By Julie Tomascik Editor Applications are being accepted for the S.M. True Jr. Agricultural Scholar Award, a major scholarship offered [...]
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 [...]