Oct 5, 2009 10:18 AM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Improving irrigation efficiency for agriculture will be the crucial challenge for the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center as it begins its second century of service to West Texas farmers and ranchers, citizens and industries....
Aug 18, 2009 10:20 AM
The Texas Agri-Life Research Center at Halfway, Texas, will host a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) field day August 25th....
Aug 13, 2009 2:30 PM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
David Pearson was trying to finish planting 3,400 acres of cotton in early June, hoping for a rain to give his dryland acreage a better chance, and hoping 2009 bears little resemblance to last year....
Aug 13, 2009 2:26 PM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Whether climate change will occur or not and whether changes result from human activity or not, cautious Southwest businessmen, including farmers and ranchers, should plan accordingly....
Mar 11, 2009 10:17 AM, By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
Subsurface drip irrigation was able to produce up to four bales of cotton per acre with less water than conventional irrigation methods at the Texas AgriLife Research station near Chillicothe....
Jan 22, 2009 2:17 PM
Oct 15, 2008 10:08 AM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Subsurface drip irrigation continues to expand rapidly in West Texas crop production. ...
News from the Farm BillACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 11, 2008 10:01 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct paymentsJul 8, 2008 9:21 AM America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7.... Food, Conservation and Energy Act for Oklahoma farmersJul 3, 2008 8:22 AM, By Ron Smith Elk City, Okla. farmer Danny Davis doesn’t expect the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program included in the recently passed Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to fit his operation.... |
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