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Chamber of Commerce Ag Breakfast
Last Updated: 12:30 PM 11/19/09 - Every year the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce hosts a breakfast to recognize the role that agriculture plays in not only our local economy, but in the national economy as well. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up.
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Picking and Ginning…Finally

Last Updated: 10:19 AM 11/12/09 - If you happen to be driving through the Brazos River bottom between around 11am and 9pm, you’ll see a flurry of activity. Local farmers are working as fast as they can to harvest their cotton crops. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
Soybean Harvest/Fall Planting
Last Updated: 11:45 AM 11/07/09 - Jay Wilder has a crop of soybeans next to his cotton crop and the harvest of both has been delayed by the heavy rains over the past few weeks. (Full Story)
"Cotton Harvest"
Last Updated: 6:27 PM 10/30/09 - Late in August and throughout September is normally the time that most Brazos Valley cotton farmers are harvesting their crops. Seventeen to twenty two inches of rain over the last seven or eight weeks has nearly ninety per cent of the local cotton crop in a holding pattern that becomes more damaging with every passing day. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up.
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“Feral Pigs”
Last Updated: 6:47 PM 10/22/09 - Texas is home to about half of the feral pigs found in the United States, and these pests are impacting the state in a variety of different ways. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
"The Pizza Ranch"
Last Updated: 6:37 PM 10/16/09 - Several years ago, local staffers with Texas Agrilife Extension decided to try and do something about the disconnect that had taken place between youth and production agriculture. In an effort to give Brazos County 4th graders a better understanding of where the commodities we consume on a daily basis come from, a program dubbed “The Pizza Ranch” was born. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
"Dr. Norman Borlaug"
Last Updated: 7:26 PM 10/08/09 - Agriculture truly lost an ambassador with the passing of Dr. Norman Borlaug, a champion for the use of common sense, Nobel Prize winner, and father of the green revolution. We were able to capture Dr. Borlaug’s passion for agriculture on camera a couple of times in the last few years. Bob French has more with this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
Irrigated Cotton
Last Updated: 8:14 AM 10/02/09 - Here in the Brazos Valley, cotton is normally the last crop harvested at the end of the growing season, and this year a different twist from Mother Nature will cause some yields to be lower than normal. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
Nutritional New Beef Cuts
Last Updated: 4:20 PM 09/28/09 - Texas A&M meat scientists have completed research that will not only bring more value to a beef carcass, but more nutritional choices for consumers. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
"Grape Farming Opportunities"

Last Updated: 10:43 AM 09/10/09 - Wine sales are booming in Texas, so much that Texas is the only state in the union that has a deficit of vineyards relative to sales of wine in the state. Local vintner Paul Bonarrigo says Texas needs another 14,000 acres planted to meet demand. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
"Grape Harvest"
Last Updated: 12:55 PM 09/04/09 - We’ve been talking all summer about the drought and the excessive heat that has stressed plants and animals alike, so it might surprise you to learn that some ag producers actually benefited from the extremes we experienced. Joe Brown has more in this week’s From The Ground Up. (Full Story)
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