USDA outlines federal order H5N1 testing for dairy cattle
By Julie Tomascik Editor The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week announced a federal order that requires lactating dairy cattle moving interstate to first be tested for H5N1 avian influenza. The federal agency released [...]
Voter registration deadline approaches
By Jessica Domel News Editor The future is in your hands, but only if you’ve registered to participate in the [...]
Texas Youth Hunting Program offers new season of hunts
This season’s new offerings from the Texas Youth Hunting Program (TYHP) are off to a fast start with more than [...]
Grassroots advocacy efforts successfully challenge regulations
By Julie Tomascik Associate Editor The cost of doing business in agriculture seems to face ever-growing increases. But Texas Farm [...]
Dart failures in cattle
Some cattle operations have started treating sick cattle in the field with pneumatic darts or the use of remote drug [...]
Attract deer all year with combination food plots
Deer season is quickly approaching and now is the time to plant food plots, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension [...]
First crop rice harvest wraps up
By Jessica Domel News Editor Texas rice is looking good. Thanks to favorable weather, most rice farmers had finished first [...]
USDA increases farm loan funding
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that it will offer an additional $185 million for [...]
TxDOT works to improve rural roadways
By Jessica Domel News Editor Thanks to voter action and the Texas Legislature, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is [...]