Tensions are rising in the Middle East; so too are energy prices.

Raising big bodied, big antlered bucks is something of a pastime for a number of Texas landowners and deer managers. For many it’s simply a fun kind of pastime; for others it’s become an intensely studied and intensely applied, well-honed practice.

High interest rates, depressed commodity prices and increasing production costs are heavy on the minds of those in production agriculture.

The O.D. Butler Field Day is scheduled May 17 at the Camp Cooley Division of the Circle X Land and Cattle Company in Franklin. Featured topics will be Right to Farm Act, forage trials, commodity market updates.

Texas AgriLife and Central Texas Farm Credit are sponsoring the annual Millersview Wheat Tour which will be held on Thursday, May 2, 2024.

The plan all along is to get old but nobody is in a hurry for that destination. It happens to some folks faster than others but for cowboys, by virtue of the life they lead right up until they don’t or can’t, feeling old starts seemingly a little younger.

Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1000 or more head totaled 11.8 million head on April 1.

G Bar C Ranch, a North Texas cattle ranch committed to sustainability, was named the national winner of the 2023 Environmental Stewardship Award Program for its exemplary stewardship practices and conservation achievements. The ranch, which is owned by GC and Mary Ellis and operated by their daughter Meredith and long-time ranch manager Michael Knabe, became the fifth Texas-based operation to be awarded the national title.

Texas Animal Health Commission officials received confirmation of anthrax in a crossbred sheep, on a premises in Schleicher County on April 19. This is the first reported case of anthrax in Texas this year.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking public comment until May 22 on proposals to prohibit canned hunting and implement trapping standards for mountain lions.