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Students learn about longhorns through Farm From School

By Shelby Shank Field Editor Texas students learned about longhorns through Texas Farm Bureau’s (TFB) Farm From School program this month. Kindergarten through fifth-grade students across the Lone Star State virtually “meet” with a farmer [...]

USDA updates ground beef tracking procedures

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declared new procedures to speed up tracing the [...]

TWDB funds water projects in Brazoria, Palo Pinto and Webb counties

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) approved $26,980,000 in improvement projects for a water system and a water treatment plant [...]

Rio Grande Valley cotton harvest improves

Cotton harvest is underway in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) and is rivaling last year’s yields. Only 60,000 acres of [...]

FDA updates animal antibiotics policy

Veterinarians attending the recent Academy of Veterinary Consultants conference were updated on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center [...]

USDA six-month progress report on Farm Bill

An update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was issued recently on progress implementing programs authorized under the 2014 [...]

Mounted first-response team makes ready

Moved by the stories told by Texas ranchers after Hurricane Ike of their devastating loss and misplaced animals, Dr. Dee [...]

Irrigation auditing from the field in ‘the cloud’

A recently launched website allows the audit of irrigation systems using cloud-based software anywhere web access is available—including out in [...]

AgriLife offers riparian restoration publication

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new publication, Riparian Restoration on Farms and Ranches in Texas, is now available either in [...]

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