Texas Ag Today - October 8, 2024
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*The West Texas cotton crop has made a turn for the worse.
*Extreme and exceptional drought continues to spread in Texas.
*The ending of the port workers strike is good news for agriculture.
*Halloween is bringing an unhappy trick for the Texas corn industry.
*A Texas congressman and the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee are asking the GAO to review the decision to allow fresh beef from Paraguay.
*Cotton harvest is slowly getting underway in the Texas Southern Plains.
*It feels like fall in the Central Texas Blacklands.
*Now is the time to assign a body condition score to all your beef cows.
*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