The grilling season is in full swing and we decided to talk with a meat scientist about what it takes to have a good steak grilling experience. What we...
Late last fall at the end of the cotton harvest, an odd thing happened. Cotton prices began to go up and stayed up and early this year it looked like producers could...
If you talk to most farmers in the Brazos River Bottom many will tell you that there’s not much that can’t be grown in that fertile soil. That soil plus the availability of...
Alfalfa is a forage crop that has been around for centuries and is dubbed by many as the mother’s milk of hay production. It produces the highest...
Many in the urban population consider themselves environmental activists while most agricultural producers think of themselves as active environmentalists....
A little over nineteen years ago Producers Cooperative and KBTX began a partnership designed to bridge a gap that had evolved over time between...
When asked where food comes from, many consumers will say that it comes from the grocery store. Likewise, when asked where hay to feed animals comes from, a...
People who grow things, whether it’s a row crop or a flower bed, will get the same bit of advice from a soil chemist. Before the planting season gets here, have your...
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...
