Texas Agriculture Daily - Texas Farm Bureau

New Congress has work to do for agriculture

By Julie Tomascik Editor Congress reconvened this month with a packed agenda, including passing a modernized farm bill. Farmers and ranchers in Texas and across the nation have made it clear that action is needed. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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