EPA proposes new dicamba label
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now accepting comments on a proposal that would allow farmers to once again use dicamba to control broadleaf weeds on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybeans. [...]
Ongoing disaster assistance program signup
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has started making payments through the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program–Plus (WHIP+) to farmers [...]
Global pandemic plows through Texas agriculture
By Jennifer Dorsett Field Editor The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has altered every aspect of the American economy, including agriculture. Volatile [...]
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 [...]