Rosenberg Summer Ag Institute brings agriculture to educators
By Emmy Powell Communications Specialist Texas teachers learned more about agriculture and how they can incorporate agriculture into their classrooms at this year’s second Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) Summer Ag Institute in Rosenberg. This was [...]
Texas hunting, fishing dates released for 2020-21
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved changes to the 2020-21 Texas hunting and fishing [...]
USDA issues first CFAP payments to farmers
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) approved more than [...]
Court vacates three dicamba registrations
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pulled the registration of three dicamba herbicides after [...]
Legislative fix brings flexibility to PPP
Changes recently passed by the House and Senate to the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck (SBA) Protection Program (PPP) offers farmers [...]
Peanut butter popularity spreads during COVID-19
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Peanut butter, a common American food, has seen sales increase since the start of the [...]
Central Texas crops pummeled by hail, storms
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Storms rolled through Central Texas in late May, bringing heavy rain, strong wind gusts, flooding [...]
Matagorda County farmers plant first hemp crop
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp production for the first time in nearly 100 [...]
COVID-19 leads to U.S. ag export declines for 2020
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The latest Outlook for Agricultural Trade, published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has [...]