Texas Agriculture Daily - Texas Farm Bureau

CWD detected in Medina County deer breeding facility

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was confirmed in a Medina County deer breeding facility, marking the fifth facility where the disease has been detected in the county. A two-year-old male white-tailed deer tested positive using postmortem [...]

Texas Plains is frontrunner in state cotton production

Texas cotton farmers produced almost 6.2 million bales last year from 4.6 million harvested acres. Planted acreage was 6.2 million, [...]

Beginning rancher, beef short courses set for summer

Livestock producers have two important Texas A&M AgriLife Extension (AgriLife) conferences available this summer that will offer insights on production, [...]

Spinach protein may help fight citrus greening

In a landmark step in the fight against citrus greening disease, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Southern [...]

Cover crops can provide nitrogen

Traditionally, cover crops were used for erosion control. But in the past few years, cover crops have been used for [...]

Winter wheat forecast is up 7 percent

The latest report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast winter wheat production in 2015 at 1,471,802,000 bushels, up [...]