USDA launches crop disaster relief program for 2023-24 losses
Farmers who suffered losses to their crops due to natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can begin applying for$16 billion in disaster aid payments through the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP). The program, which was [...]
Company tests driverless tractors on large, small farms
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter Long days behind the controls of a tractor or combine could become a thing of [...]
Landowners, groups work to prevent Monarch listing
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter As a critical stop on the Monarch butterfly’s migration route to and from Mexico each [...]
USDA releases final cotton numbers, wheat forecast
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter Despite not being included in farm bill safety net coverage like other commodities in 2017, [...]
Mother Nature helping, hurting Texas dairy industry
By Jessica Domel Multimedia Reporter Texas dairy farms produced more milk in the first quarter of this year, but a [...]
Perdue names FSA administrator
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced last week the appointment of Richard Fordyce to serve as administrator of the [...]
Updates proposed to branding for cattle from Mexico
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is accepting comments on its proposal [...]
Equine disease confirmed in Lubbock County horse
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) officials confirmed Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the neurologic disease linked to Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1), [...]
Foot and mouth disease research moves to U.S.
By Julie Tomascik Editor U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently authorized the movement of a modified, non-infectious version of [...]