Texas Ag Today - September 10, 2024
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*Texas A&M researchers continue to learn more about avian influenza in dairy cattle.
*The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting comments on the proposed heat illness standard.
*U.S. beef exports were higher in July.
*Pasture management is making a difference on some Texas High Plains ranches.
*Congress is back in Washington D.C. and farm groups are pushing for action on a Farm Bill.
*The West Texas Fair and Rodeo in Abeline is attracting competitors and visitors from around the country.
*Coastal Bend farmers and ranchers are looking forward to better weather this month.
*This is the time of year to be concerned about salt toxicity in livestock.
*A proposed USDA rule may eliminate competition in cattle marketing.
*West Texas A&M University is looking for better ways to grow strawberries.
*USDA will test milk in states where dairy cattle tested positive for the H5N1 virus.
*It was hard to grow grass in the Texas High Plains this...
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*The final leg of the Texas sorghum harvest will be both good and bad.
*Avian influenza has now passed to a pig.
*The dispute over Mexico’s ban on biotech corn is expected to be settled by the end of the year.
*Texas High Plains farmers may go with more sorghum next year.
*If Congress...
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