It has been estimated that heat-related events in the Midwest have cost the cattle industry more than $75 million in the past 10 years....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Without rain and with temperatures soaring to the high 90s or topping 100, large parts of the state continued to suffer drought-like conditions, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
The summer growing season in southern Oklahoma and northern Texas is from about mid-April through mid-November, and 70 percent of the annual production of summer perennial grasses is expected by the first of July. ...
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Most of the 750,000 acres of dryland cotton in the Texas High Plains looks "very rough," said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomist....
Ranchers from both sides of the border are invited to attend the Bi-National Ranchers Conference on June 24-25 at the Embassy Suites, 110 Calle Del Norte, in Laredo. ...
The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is providing technical and financial assistance to ranchers in a 17-county area to help fight the spread of the cattle fever tick. ...
The Texas AgriLife Extension Service will sponsor the 4th Annual South Texas Beef, Range and Pasture Short Course on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at the Texas Agrilife Research & Extension Center on Hwy. 44 just west of the Corpus Christi Airport. ...
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
The perennial Heart of Texas Cow/Calf Clinic conducted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service is set for June 18 at the Brown County Fairgrounds in Brownwood on U.S. Hwy 377 South....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has begun implementing provisions of the Dairy Export Incentive Program, partly in response to the reintroduction of direct export subsidies by the European Union earlier this year....
By Mike Fritz
Private grazing rates across the Western U.S. inched up just 1.4 percent over the past year to $14.70/animal unit month (AUM) as of Jan. 1. ...
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