Texas Ag Today - October 11, 2024
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*Texas Panhandle ranchers continue to rebuild fences destroyed by the spring wildfires.
*There is more corn and grain sorghum in storage in Texas this year.
*East Texas cattle producers are feeding hay early due to drought.
*Texas High Plains corn farmers had an unexpected visitor in their fields this year.
*The American Farm Bureau Federation is urging farmers, ranchers and applicators to pay attention to the EPAs new herbicide and insecticide strategies.
*Fall is bringing dryer conditions to Texas as harvest wraps up.
*Farmers in the Rolling Plains are focused on economic issues.
*Ulcers are common in performance horses.
*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