Updated: 7:47 AM Production agriculture is an industry that faces many challenges every year from weather, increased input costs, and sometimes unintended consequences from government legislation.
Updated: 7:58 AM Production agriculture attracts a type of person who is independent, likes a challenge, and isn’t afraid of gambling and having a big part of his or her success or failure in any given year being a result of the decisions they make.
Updated: 7:54 AM The average age of farmers in the U.S. is fifty-seven years old, but the fastest growing segment of farmers are those age sixty-five and older.
Updated: 7:50 AM Bryan Shaw is the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and has had several occasions to butt heads with the current nominee to head the EPA.
Updated: 8:07 AM There has been a lot of talk during the current session of the Texas Legislature about building water reservoirs. In fact, there are 30 sites that are being proposed as possibilities.
Updated: 7:46 AM Water has been one of the top priorities of the 2013 Texas Legislative Session but last week House Natural Resource Chairman Allan Ritter’s House Bill 11 that ear-marked two billion dollars in the rainy day fund to be spent on water projects was removed from the House Floor after it was ruled that it violated a rule on the consideration of appropriation bills.
Updated: 7:50 AM The Texas Legislature is in session.
The Board of Directors of Producers Cooperative traveled to Austin to visit with elected state officials about issues being addressed in the state capital that might impact agriculture.
Updated: 8:03 AM The wine business is one of the fastest growing agricultural sectors in the state, and with that comes a tremendous demand for Texas grown grapes.
Updated: 8:24 AM Texas Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples was on the Texas A&M campus in College Station a couple of weeks ago and he talked a lot about the challenges facing Texas Agriculture.
Updated: 7:55 AM After many years of quietly going about their business of feeding our nation, and in fact the world, the Ag industry is engaging to tell their own story.
Updated: 8:05 AM Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples was on the Texas A&M campus this week speaking to Farmers Fight, a student led movement that promotes agriculture.
Updated: 8:17 AM It’s the middle of March and that means most Brazos Valley corn farmers have their 2013 corn crop in the ground and were able to benefit from the recent rain.
Posted: 12:51 PM If you've driven in any of the rural areas in the Brazos Valley lately, you've probably noticed some beautiful green fields and pastures. Some of this is winter forage for cattle, and some of it is winter wheat or oats.
Updated: 7:28 AM Last year the dry weather in much of the corn producing areas of the United States resulted in much lower yields that, in turn, drove grain prices up.
Updated: 7:42 AM With the vast majority of today’s consumers having absolutely no connection to production agriculture, the disconnect to where our food and fiber comes from and how it is produced has never been greater.
Updated: 6:41 PM With the passing of Norman Borlaug in 2009, agriculture not only lost one of its finest ambassadors, but also a Nobel prize winner, the father of the green revolution, and a fierce champion for the use of common sense.
Updated: 8:05 AM If you enjoy a grilling good steak, or making hamburgers at home, and you do the grocery shopping, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that the price of beef has gone up.
Updated: 8:03 AM With the drought that effected the Southwest in 2011, and another that damaged the central U.S. in 2012, the upcoming report on the size of the nation’s cow herd is expected to be down yet again. In this week’s from The Ground Up, Kailey Carey tells us there’s no quick fix to the problem.
Updated: 7:48 AM The last farm bill was written in 2007 and was set expire at the end of 2012, but congress extended it for 2013. We talked to an economist who says the bill really shouldn’t be called a farm bill because it’s a bill for consumers.
Updated: 7:31 AM The Farm Bill that was in effect for last year was set to expire at the end of 2012, and no new bill has been passed; however, when the fiscal cliff deal was made, the issue was addressed...sort of.
Updated: 8:02 AM In June of last year, the Texas Animal Health Commission put a new traceability program for cattle in place that goes into effect in 2013.
