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Texas universities receive CWD funding from APHIS

By Emmy Powell Communications Specialist Two Texas universities are among the groups that received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to study chronic wasting disease (CWD). [...]

USDA extends deadline for emergency assistance

Farmers and ranchers have an additional two weeks to enroll in the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish [...]

OSHA clarifies rules for small farm exemption

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has clarified confusing language of their 2011 small farm exemption memo. Under the [...]

Chaff cart concept to slash herbicide-resistant weeds

Australian farmers have been fighting herbicide-resistant weeds possibly longer than farmers here in the United States, and they have developed [...]

AgriLife expert urges farmers to initially sign up for SCO insurance option

Dr. Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife) economist and co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at [...]

Gluten-free sorghum: ‘Camel of crops’

American consumers are becoming more aware of grain sorghum, a healthy, gluten-free, low-glycemic, ancient grain, but what most consumers may [...]

Hopeful start of Texas shrimp season

Texas shrimp harvest season began July 15 and the Gulf Coast is crawling with shrimp boats from Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, [...]

NASA sponsors AgriLife research of drought-stricken trees

Texas A&M AgriLife Research (AgriLife) scientists, backed by NASA, will study drought-stricken trees in Texas to determine process of decay [...]

Sugarcane aphids discovered in Concho Valley

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife) warns Concho Valley grain sorghum growers to monitor crops for sugarcane aphids. The pests [...]

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