Rangeland recovery meetings approaching
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a day-long Range Recovery Meeting and Field Discussion on Aug. 3. Ranchers [...]
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07, 2017
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07, 2017
Mixed bag for Texas peaches
This year’s peach season has been a mixed bag for Texas growers. Orchards in North Texas, like Hutton Peach Farm [...]
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06, 2017
NRCS aims to restore longleaf pine forests
Over the past two centuries, longleaf pine forests have been reduced by almost 97 percent due to development, timbering and [...]
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06, 2017
Emergency loss loans available for Texas counties
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Acting Administrator Chris Beyerhelm announced physical loss loans are available [...]
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06, 2017
Texas rural land values rising
Texas rural land values rose for the sixth consecutive year in 2016, according to preliminary data from Charles Gilliland, research [...]
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05, 2017
Fever ticks confirmed on Webb-Zapata County premises
The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) confirmed the presence of cattle fever ticks on cattle originating from premises located in [...]
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04, 2017
Good, bad news in CWD report
Texas has recorded its first cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-ranging whitetail and elk. Those conclusions were recorded [...]
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03, 2017
USDA designates Texas counties as natural disaster areas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated 14 counties in Texas as primary natural disaster areas due to losses [...]
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02, 2017
Wet weather in store for Texas
After months of drought steadily creeping higher across parts of Texas and wildfire risks increasing, there may be some much [...]
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12, 2016
Texas gives U.S. rice plantings a boost
U.S. growers produced the second largest rice crop on record in 2016 after a 22 percent increase in planted acreage [...]