Texas Ag Today - October 3, 2024
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*Texas cotton conditions continue to decline.
*Texas farmers grew more wheat this past season.
*Farms and ranches are devastated in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.
*It’s time for Texas High Plains cotton farmers to make decisions about harvesting their crop.
*The Farm Bill has expired.
*What effect will the port strike have on agriculture?
*It’s important to get a forage analysis when purchasing hay.
*There are a lot of essential nutrients for cattle, but one nutrient is more important that all the others.
*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