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COLLEGE STATION – With more people eating at home as a result of the recession, an improved economy could encourage consumers to spend more money eating out in the coming months, which could be good news for cattle producers later this year and into 2010, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service livestock economist. More ... SAN ANTONIO - The Texas AgriLife Extension Service is again working to help Texas residents manage one of the most prevalent and least popular insects in the state. During the second week of September, designated statewide as Fire Ant Awareness Week, AgriLife Extension experts will spread the word - along with lots of ant bait - to help control this perpetual Texas pest. More ... Grasslands are complex environments comprised of many different kinds of living organisms affected by abiotic factors such as weather. There are few things that are black and white in such complex ecosystems, but there may be some self-evident "truths." If you haven't considered them in your grazing operation, perhaps you should. Rotational grazing More ... Fort Worth, Texas - The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) wants to remind ranchers that the deadline to file a notice for 2008 livestock losses due to severe weather conditions and/or to submit an application for payment for 2008 losses through the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) is Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. More ... Fort Worth, Texas - Come join the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) for a ranch gathering on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Griffin Ranch near Kilgore. The gathering will begin at 5:30 p.m. with registration and a free barbecue dinner. More ... AUSTIN – (Aug. 31, 2009) For the week ending Aug. 29, 2009, feeder cattle prices at Texas auctions were steady to $4 lower per hundredweight, with some to $6 lower. Fed cattle prices were $1.50 higher than a weak earlier. Cotton prices were unchanged. Wheat ended the week slightly higher, grain sorghum was unchanged and corn prices were slightly lower. More ... AUSTIN—Federal stimulus funds are expected to create about 400 new jobs in rural Texas as 75 local governments unroll a slew of public works projects to be completed over the next two years. More ... COLLEGE STATION - Field trials of a new cotton are verifying previous lab and greenhouse studies indicating the crop could become a source of protein for millions of malnourished people in the world. More ... COLLEGE STATION – While cotton, both dryland and irrigated, looks very good in the Panhandle, it's not the same story for growers in the South Plains and the Rolling Plains, said Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomists. More ... |
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