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Farmers in the Texas Coastal Bend could still make an average or a little less than average crop if they get something close to normal rainfall for the rest of the growing season....More

In 2011, Corpus Christi endured the second driest year on record. Very little of the area’s corn, cotton or grain sorghum came out of the ground this spring....More

Coastal Bend is on a track to receive about 10 fewer inches of rain this year than the average 22 inches....More

Cotton acres in the Rio Grande Valley are increasing in mid-April, but, thanks to the drought and continuing water issues, current acreage represents only a percentage of historical planted acres....More

Farmers around Carlsbad, in southeastern New Mexico, say they are fed up over water shortages in the Pecos River, blaming upriver Roswell water users for tapping groundwater sources and depleting water that would have flowed south in the now near-dry Pecos riverbed....More

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act requires EPA to conduct registration reviews every 15 years on all registered pesticides....More

Repercussions of the 2012 drought are set to challenge the 2013 growing season. The Corn Belt is especially vulnerable....More

The forecast for irrigation water this year is “dismal” for New Mexico....More

The unrelenting drought is taking its toll on South Texas cattle ranchers who are resorting to a centuries-old emergency method of feeding cattle, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent....More

While we live in a time of advanced agricultural science and a world of high technology, the challenges of modern agricultural are as high as they have ever been....More