Texas Ag Today - October 31, 2024
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*Beef-on-dairy calves are having a positive effect on the beef industry.
*Time is running out for sorghum growers to enter the National Sorghum Yield contest.
*Texas feedlot inventories have declined slightly.
*Getting into the cattle business is a tough task.
*There is very little time to get a Farm Bill completed this year.
*Burn bans are in effect all across Texas.
*One of the many ways the Farm Bill supports farmers and ranchers is by funding market development programs.
*Parasite resistance to deworming product is a major problem for the Texas goat industry.
*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