Applications open for TFB’s 2025 Young Farmer & Rancher contests
By Julie Tomascik Editor The applications for the Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) 2025 Outstanding Young Farmer & Rancher (YF&R) and Excellence in Agriculture (EIA) contests are now open. The annual contests are a way [...]
Texas Beef Council launches ‘BEEF Loving Texans’ campaign
The Texas Beef Council (TBC) recently launched BEEF Loving Texans—a consumer-driven campaign created to share unique recipes, stories, cooking and [...]
Wet weather good, bad for Texas specialty crops
With the good comes the bad. Moderate to heavy rains in March, April and May in the Winter Garden, Valley [...]
Eminent domain reform needs Texans’ voices
By Julie Tomascik Associate Editor A growing state with a strong appetite for new development has put a target on [...]
Storms damage West Texas cotton
By Julie Tomascik Associate Editor Mother Nature wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in several West Texas counties over the [...]
Texas small land sales, prices rise in 2015
Small tracts of land in Texas were the strongest segment of the state’s real estate market in 2015, according to [...]
New discovery may improve future mosquito control
By Steve Byrns AgriLife Today COLLEGE STATION—Major rainfall across most of Texas triggering hordes of mosquitos coupled with seemingly constant [...]
WASDE report: U.S. corn, soybean exports raised
The latest USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report shows an uptick in U.S. corn and soybean exports. [...]
GMO labeling talks continue
Time is running out to reach a compromise on labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before Vermont’s mandatory labeling law takes [...]