Texas Farm Bureau names 2024-25 homeschool garden grant recipients
By Emmy Powell Communications Specialist Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) named the recipients of the homeschool garden grants for 2024-2025. Fifteen grants, up to $200, were awarded to homeschool educators across the Lone Star State for [...]
Collected ag data aids farmers to be better informed
The captured farm data can help farmers make better informed management decisions. Precision ag technology creates monster-sized data, which can [...]
AgriLife launches Texas vegetable variety selector
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s (AgriLife) online Texas Vegetable Variety Selector will help growers choose the best types of varieties [...]
ARC and PLC coverage selection begins Nov. 17
Farmers and ranchers can select coverage in the new 2014 Farm Bill established programs, Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price [...]
Winter wheat acclimates to colder temperatures
The freezing temperatures felt by much of the Southwest this mid-November will likely not damage the state’s winter wheat crop, [...]
Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show adds ‘Focus on Wheat’ to program
The Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show will offer a program on wheat on Dec. 2. The show will be hosted [...]
Land and Livestock Conference set for Dec. 3, Brady
The Tri-County Land and Livestock Conference will be held on Dec. 3 in Brady. The program, to be conducted by [...]
Texas rice farmer conserves natural resources, migratory birds
Taylor Wilcox, a Chambers County rice farmer, works with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) [...]
New educational video focuses on affordable crop insurance
A new educational video explains that crop insurance policies must remain affordable for farmers and ranchers or the entire farm [...]