Farmers and ranchers heard updates on the Asian longhorned tick, outlooks on cotton and other major commodities and scholarships awarded to 12 outstanding 4-H members during Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s 61st Blackland Income Growth Conference in Waco.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will present the 31st Annual Watson Gulf Coast Winegrowers Field Day on Feb. 3 in Cat Spring.
Speaking on a Cattle Chat podcast, veterinary experts outlined how calf diarrhea, also known as scours, can be a serious issue in newborn calves but one that can be minimized by rotating the pastures where the cows calve. Scours can lead to dehydration and death in newborn calves, said Bob L…
Beef prices remain robust to start the new year, supported by strong demand. University of Tennessee ag economist Andrew Griffith says it has been an eventful run for beef prices.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — As the new year begins, often it is a time when people begin budgeting. In the cattle business, the drought of 2022 is influencing how producers are having to manage reduced access to feedstuffs, say the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute on a recent…
Egg prices continue to set all-time per-dozen price records, and a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert does not expect that trend to reverse in the near future.
Luke Sanders experienced the selfless nature of the agricultural industry for the first time during his seventh grade year.
Luke Sanders experienced the selfless nature of the agricultural industry for the first time during his seventh grade year.
A Texas A&M AgriLife researcher is taking a page out of human disease research to see if dogs might be able to sniff out bovine respiratory disease, one of the largest health challenges for the feedlot cattle industry.
Four new faculty additions in the past year to the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are increasing Texas A&M AgriLife’s ability to improve Texas agriculture.
DES MOINES, Iowa — At the end of November, the USDA mailed survey codes to all known agriculture producers with an invitation to respond online to the 2022 Census of Agriculture at agcounts.usda.gov.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — A well-balanced diet is a key to good health. For cattle, vitamin A is one nutrient that producers need to manage to keep cattle healthy, said the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute on a recent Cattle Chat podcast.
I cleaned my desk this week. I feel as if I’ve written about this subject before, but it was a long time ago. Based on the strata of documents, newspapers and various other flotsam and jetsam, it has been awhile since my desk had a good cleaning. If I did write about this subject in a past i…
MANHATTAN, Kan. — A well-balanced diet is a key to good health. For cattle, vitamin A is one nutrient that producers need to manage to keep cattle healthy, said the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute on a recent Cattle Chat podcast.
I cleaned my desk this week. I feel as if I’ve written about this subject before, but it was a long time ago. Based on the strata of documents, newspapers and various other flotsam and jetsam, it has been awhile since my desk had a good cleaning. If I did write about this subject in a past i…
Cedar fever season is upon us once again, complete with runny noses, itchy eyes and general misery. But what exactly is cedar fever and why is it so insufferable this time of year?
Cedar fever season is upon us once again, complete with runny noses, itchy eyes and general misery. But what exactly is cedar fever and why is it so insufferable this time of year?
Producers in the Texas High Plains are reevaluating the forages they grow because of declining irrigation capacities and increasing forage demands from the region’s dairy herds.
During times when ranchers face difficult circumstances, the Farm Service Agency works to be flexible in its programs and offerings to be of the highest service, according to FSA Director Zach Ducheneaux.
ROME — Global prices for food commodities such as grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said, as Russia’s war in Ukraine, drought and other factors drove up inflation and worsened …
No two carbon credit contracts are written the same, and that is why Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agricultural law specialist Tiffany Lashmet said there is a list of considerations she advises everyone to take before entering a carbon credit contract.
Farmers can expect a challenging marketing environment for agricultural crops grown in 2023 as the global economy faces recessionary challenges, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service grains marketing economist.
The Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch 12-week online course is open for registration. The program, offered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, takes place Jan. 23 through April 16.
Changes in the new farm bill will mostly be about money.
Can you put a price on clean air, water or white-tailed deer? The Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute partnered with other agencies to study and assess the value of these “commodities of nature” and subsequent losses associated with land use changes.
The Blackland Income Growth Conference scheduled Jan. 10-11 at The Base at Extraco Events Center, 4601 Bosque Blvd., Waco, will address both current and future agricultural trends affecting all aspects of production. The event is sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
So we begin a new year. I feel we set the benchmark a few years back for what a bad year is, and so far we haven’t dipped that low again. I am optimistic for this new year, and hopefully most are. It’s a long row to hoe if you start out with a bad attitude, so it’s best to look to the future…
An old cowboy once told me “If you work cattle like you gotta be done quick, it takes all day; but if you work like you got all day, you get done quick.”
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