Texas Rain Catcher Award applications open for 2024
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) is now accepting applications for the 2024 Texas Rain Catcher Award. Individuals, companies, organizations, municipalities and other local and state governmental entities in Texas who have a rainwater [...]
Deadline nears for Agriculture in the Classroom Grant Program
Texas Farm Bureau will once again make funds available to county Farm Bureaus though the Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) [...]
AgriLife developing tools to help fight crop diseases
Remote sensing technology aids Texas A&M AgriLife researchers in finding new solutions to help treat cotton root rot and other [...]
Hunting, fishing could expand at national wildlife refuges
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to expand hunting and fishing opportunities at 13 national wildlife refuges across [...]
South Korea ban lifted on U.S. poultry
U.S. exporters are able to ship chicken and turkey to South Korea as long as the poultry was processed after [...]
Wheat harvest, research successful in High Plains
By Kay Ledbetter AgriLife Communications After four years of drought, a battle with stripe rust and a hailed-out crop last [...]
Gasoline prices show summer decline
Noticing a drop at the gas pump? Economist Karr Ingham tells the Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) Radio Network that gas [...]
Wildlife population, habitat flourish in far West Texas
Circle Ranch is a 32,000-acre high-desert mountain ranch located in the Sierra Diablo (Devil Mountains) of Hudspeth County in far [...]
AFBF urges support for career and technical education
Career and technical education and post-high school job training and retraining are essential to the economic viability of rural communities. [...]