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. 
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