If you’ve driven through any of our rural areas this week you’ve probably seen a lot of tractors out in the field. Most likely it was...
When you make your living farming your livelihood is dependent upon the weather, and when you grow more than one crop, sometimes it’s hard to figure out...
Most of our area farmers who are planting corn this year have it planted and the next crop up is cotton. With the recent rains, farmers are anxiously...
American Farmland Trust estimates that over forty acres per hour are lost in the U.S. to sprawl and development. With projections of two billion more...
Over the last thirty years, the average age of the U.S. farmer has increased from fifty point five years to fifty-eight point three years and...
If you’ve driven through any of our rural areas over the past week or so, you’ve probably noticed tractors pulling planters in many fields. What you were most likely looking at was...
For every three acres that is planted in the U.S. one is going to trade, leaving our borders and going somewhere else, and ten percent of our...
Work continues on a new bill to replace the 2014 Farm Bill and many people who are familiar with it will tell you that labeling it a farm bill is a misnomer. Joe...
When the 2014 Farm Bill was being negotiated it was during a time with relatively high commodity prices and opponents of the bill wanted to take a lot of...
Cattle numbers for the national beef herd were released in January and the report revealed that we have the most cows in the U.S. since...
The number of products we use every day that originate in agriculture would probably be a surprise to most of us. Also surprising is the minor impact...
Throughout history, successful world leaders have recognized the importance of agriculture to their own countries. French President...
Texas A&M has the largest Animal Science Department in the country and thirty years ago most of those students came off ranches or had some type of ag...
There are cattle ranches that integrate wildlife production or even goat production with their cattle operations to create a second income stream, but...
As removed as most consumers are from production agriculture, there are growing numbers of people who are taking an interest in where their food is coming...
The USDA, the FDA, the CDC, and the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization have all concluded that genetically modified organism...
For the production agriculture industry, 2017 was a year characterized by ups and downs that were determined primarily by weather and what a producer...
Our traditional Christmas celebrations wouldn’t be possible without production agriculture. Everything from the trees we decorate, to the...
