By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Many Texas counties received substantial rains, greatly alleviating drought conditions, greening up pastures and benefitting many late-planted crops such as soybeans, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
By Donald Stotts
News and Media Relations Manager
Agricultural Communications Services, Oklahoma State University
Stocker cattle operators are facing a unique year, but help is available in determining answers to the coming non-traditional management scenarios by attending the 6th annual Southwest Stocker Cattle Conference on Sept. 30....
The topic is always the science of manure management at the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center, which connects experts from land-grant universities and federal agencies with animal producers and their advisers....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Nearly all of Texas received some rain, with some areas such as the Panhandle getting 6 to 10 inches, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
For some ranchers, strategic planning may seem tedious. For others, it may seem something a large corporation – not a working cattle operation - would do. ...
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
High input costs are putting a squeeze on cattle producers, and experts at the 2008 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, sponsored by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, provided several options to overcome these challenges....
By Blair Fannin and Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has raised the nation’s corn production estimate to 12.3 billion bushels, an increase of 573 million bushels over the July crop estimate, according to data released Aug. 12. ...
Soaring grain, oilseed and land prices helped bolster some rural Americans´ incomes over the past year, but livestock producers have not reaped such gains....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
As it made landfall north of Galveston Aug. 5, Tropical Storm Edouard brought rain to many southeastern counties. ...
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
Facing a triple threat of high fuel, feed and fertilizer prices, more than 1,400 cattle producers heard from experts at the 54th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course on ways to maintain profitability....
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