Bill aims to protect Texas livestock from screwworm threat
By Julie Tomascik Editor A bill introduced in Congress aims to safeguard livestock and wildlife in Texas and the U.S. from the New World screwworm, a destructive pest that once devastated ranches across the southern [...]
More Texas Panhandle farmers turning to wheatlage
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor In the Texas Panhandle region of the High Plains, wheat farmers have more than one [...]
SBA’s EIDL loans available to ag businesses
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that agricultural businesses are now eligible for SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan [...]
Corn prices drop from COVID-19
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor An analysis commissioned by the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) shows cash corn prices have [...]
AgriLife plastics in cotton webinar set for May 6
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Texas-grown cotton is known as some of the finest in the world, but foreign matter [...]
COVID-19 causes meat processing capacity to fall sharply
During the past few months, several American meat processing facilities have shut down because workers became infected with coronavirus. Worker [...]
Texan competes in national Collegiate Discussion Meet
By Julie Tomascik Editor The American Farm Bureau Federation’s Collegiate Discussion Meet looked a little differently this year due to [...]
Save with Texas Farm Bureau member benefits
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor Even in these uncertain times, life goes on. Schoolwork still needs to be completed. Work [...]
Report shows tractor, combine sales down in March
Unit sales of agricultural tractors and self-propelled combines in March 2020 fell in the U.S. and Canada, according to the [...]