Texas FFA announces 2024 TFB scholarship recipients
By Emmy Powell Communications Specialist The Texas FFA Association announced the selection of the 2024 Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) scholarship recipients during the 96th annual Texas FFA State Convention in Houston this week. Ava [...]
AgriLife warns of farm programs sign-up deadlines, offers decision aid help
Farmers’ decisions on base acreage reallocation or to update yield histories need to be made by Feb. 27. The sign-up [...]
Senate votes ‘no’ on removing Lesser Prairie-Chicken from ‘threatened’ list
The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment with a vote of 54 to 44 that would have taken the Lesser Prairie-Chicken [...]
Study reveals COOL not the cause cattle imports falloff
Morning Ag Clips reports the decline in cattle imports into the U.S. is not due to Country of Origin Labeling [...]
TWDB updates interactive water plan website
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) released an updated and final version of the Interactive 2012 State Water Plan website, [...]
CRP encourages more bird habitats on irrigated farmland
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new policy for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to encourage the creation of [...]
Weed control is focus of AgriLife’s Texas Range webinar, Feb. 5
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife) hosts Texas Range webinar series scheduled the first Thursday of each month from [...]
Boost in feedlot cattle numbers, but with fewer heifers
While the latest U.S. Cattle on Feed report shows total inventory in U.S. feedlots with capacity for 1,000 or more [...]
Drought takes toll on Texas groundwater
Most of Texas has emerged from multi-years of drought, but scientists at the University of Texas Austin's Center for Space [...]