Texas Ag Today - September 30, 2024
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*Congress continues to kick agriculture down the road.
*Drought conditions have improved slightly in Texas over the past week.
*Milk demand is strong and prices are high.
*USDA is requiring new electronic ID tags for certain cattle and bison.
*Lawmakers are urging their leaders to make passing a Farm Bill a priority.
*The Federal Milk Marketing Order reform process is continuing.
*Researchers are working to develop an anaplasmosis vaccine for cattle.
*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...
Published 11/05/24
*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...
Published 11/04/24