As the 2009 corn harvest across Texas draws to a close, many producers in much of the south and central portions of the state have yet to receive disaster loss payments from the 2008 crop year. ...
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Reduced acreage, lower production and fewer imports mean a significant decline in Cotton Incorporated operating funds and a $14 million budget cut for 2010....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Last March 25 I sat in a crowded banquet hall at The Northwood Club in Dallas and listened to Dr. Norman Borlaug speak humbly but eloquently about what the agriculture industry must do to feed the world....
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Dr. Brent Bean, Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomist in Amarillo, is trying to help answer a question about the profitability of warm-season grass production for hay or grazing under dryland and irrigation in the High Plains....
By Kathleen Phillips, Texas A&M University
Services have been set for Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel laureate and distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Implementing a new farm law always comes with the tedious task of developing and implementing the rules and regulations necessary for the program to run as smoothly as is possible for a government program to operate....
Norman E. Borlaug, who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding and disease-resistant wheat used to prevent famine in developing countries throughout the world, has died....
Details are being finalized in preparation for celebrating 100 years of Texas AgriLife Research on Sept. 17 at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock....
By Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University
Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Taylor County Livestock and Wildlife Protection Association will conduct a feral hog control seminar from 5:30-8:35 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Big Country Hall at the Taylor County Expo Center. ...
Proper use of cotton harvest aids in the Texas high Plains can result in earlier harvest, preservation of fiber quality, and fewer seed quality reductions due to field exposure....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers are the first link in the chain for food quality and safety and the measures they take to safeguard their products make the job easier for other links in the chain to maintain the integrity of the nation’s food supply....
By Dale Miller, Editor, National Hog Farmer
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack held a press conference Sept. 10 with the intended purpose of explaining the USDA’s preparedness to handle the potential onset H1N1 influenza this fall. ...
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Farmers and ranchers may be inadvertently aiding and abetting one of their worst enemies, the feral hog, by providing supplemental feed for white-tailed deer and other wildlife, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service wildlife expert....
On September 24, 2009 the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), AgriLife Extension Service and other conservation partners will host a “Land Management Options for Expired CRP Land” meeting in Canyon, Texas....
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Though rain clouds have been idle over most of Texas, agricultural producers remained busy, gearing up for harvesting – or already harvesting – and preparing to plant winter wheat and baling hay, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel. ...
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