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Industry News
2013 Futurity to be held in College Station
published: April 5th 2013 source: Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association
Mark your calendars for the 2013 Texas Junior Simmental/Simbrah Asso-ciation’s 40th annual State Futurity to be held in College Station, Texas June 13-16 at the Brazos County Expo Center. The four-day event features leadership contests, selection of the queen and sweetheart, director elections, scholarship interviews, cattle shows, awards banquet, friendship, and good family fun....
Industry News
TSSA announces annual meeting date
published: April 5th 2013
This year’s annual meeting will be held on Saturday June 15, 2013 at the Brazos County Expo in Bryan, Texas. The meeting this year will be held in conjunction with the Texas Junior Simmental/Simbrah Futurity that runs from June 13-16, 2013....
Industry News
Directories are being distributed
published: April 5th 2013 source: Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association
All of our current membership should have received their copies of the 2013 TSSA directory in the mail. Did you know that directories were also sent to every county extension office in the state (250+) and nearly 400 have been distributed to high schools in the state that offer an agriculture science curriculum....
Industry News
Texas crop, weather
published: April 5th 2013 source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
COLLEGE STATION – A large part of the Texas winter wheat crop could have been damaged by hard freezes March 24-26, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. “Temperatures in the teens and low 20s appear to have been common in the Panhandle, and in the upper 20s and low 30s in the Blacklands on Sunday night and Monday morning,” said Dr....
Industry News
Management decisions critical for new and inexperienced ranch owners
published: April 5th 2013 source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
COLLEGE STATION – All ranchers may be “planning for profit,” but some might have a hard time capitalizing on it without key advice offered at the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Ranch Management University, coordinators said....
Industry News
AgriLife Extension launches Water Education Network online
published: April 5th 2013 source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
COLLEGE STATION — A Water Education Network to help people in Texas learn the best ways to manage the precious resource has been launched by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. The site, http://water....
Production
Nolan Ryan’s All-Natural Beef: Tough Talk About Tenderness
published: April 4th 2013 by: Sam Gazdziak source: The National Provisioner
There are many words that could be used to describe Nolan Ryan: tough, intimidating, feared, dominating. In a career that stretched from 1966 to 1993, Ryan was one of the best pitchers to ever play the game of baseball....
Feed & Nutrition
Corn Market Tumbles
published: April 3rd 2013 source: KTIC
Higher grain stocks and lower than expected demand has sent the commodity market tumbling. The latest grain stocks report overshadowed the planting intentions report that came out from the U.S. Department of Agriculture last Thursday....
Production
Good Marketing Captures Available Dollars
published: April 2nd 2013 by: Kris Ringwald, beef specialist
Cattle producers need to set focused, systematic goals to capture more net dollars. When the discussion rests on the income side, marketing is the focus. Improved marketing to capture the monies available in the market is the key....
Production
Tips For Managing Forage, Water And Cattle Resources
published: April 1st 2013 by: B. Lynn Gordon source: IGrow, South Dakota Extension
Burke Teichert, is no stranger to the beef industry. He was employed for many years in a management role with AgReserves (which consisted of Dessert Ranches, Rex Ranch, and several other large ranching enterprises)....
Industry News
Renewed Interest In Cracker Cattle
published: March 29th 2013 by: Tamara Lush source: GoErie.com
An ancient and hearty breed of cattle from Florida could be your next healthy meal. Known as Cracker Cattle, they are descendants of animals that arrived in Florida with Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon in 1521....
Pastures & Forages
Winter Wheat Damaged By Recent Frosts
published: March 28th 2013 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife
A large part of the Texas winter wheat crop could have been damaged by hard freezes March 24-26, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. “Temperatures in the teens and low 20s appear to have been common in the Panhandle, and in the upper 20s and low 30s in the Blacklands on Sunday night and Monday morning,” said Dr....
Industry News
BIF To Meet In OKC
published: March 27th 2013 source: American Angus Association
Oklahoma State University (OSU), in collaboration with the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF), will host the 45th Annual BIF Research Symposium and Meeting June 12-15 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center in Oklahoma City....
Industry News
Cattlemen’s Groups Oppose President’s Designation Of National Monuments In New Mexico
published: March 26th 2013
WASHINGTON — The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), the Public Lands Council (PLC) and the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) expressed concern today over the recent announcement by President Barack Obama that, despite efforts to curb spending and tighten the belts on state and federal budgets, his administration has designated five new national monuments under the Antiquities Act of 1906....
Industry News
TSCRA Special Rangers Recover Millions In Stolen Livestock And Equipment
published: March 25th 2013 source: TSCRA
FORT WORTH – Stolen livestock and ranch equipment worth more than $4.4 million were recovered or accounted for in 2012 by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Special Rangers....
Industry News
Drought Decreasing Butterfly Numbers
published: March 22nd 2013 source: tamu.times
Drought conditions and historic wildfires the past few years continue to decrease their numbers as they wing across Texas this spring. Worse news: milkweed plants – the only kind they need to survive – are also not in plentiful supply, says a Texas A&M University Monarch watcher....
Industry News
HSUS Getting Its Way On “Downed” Veal Calves
published: March 21st 2013 by: Dan Flynn source: Food Safety News
For most of the past decade, “downer” cattle were kept out of the food supply because of concern that most were older cows, which are thought to be more susceptible to disease, especially Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease....
Reproduction
Synchronization Q&A’s
published: March 20th 2013 source: ABS Global
Synchronization of beef cows goes hand in hand with AI. The highly researched, proven, and improved protocols released each year from the Beef Reproduction Task Force and Beef Reproduction Leadership Team have had a highly positive influence on beef cattle AI success....
Industry News
National Ag Day Is Today
published: March 19th 2013 source: agday.org
National Ag Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together to recognize the contributions of agriculture....
Pastures & Forages
Brazil In Position To Pass US As Soybean Producer
published: March 18th 2013 source: KTIC
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP)--An Iowa State University expert says long-term trends and recent weather patterns have put Brazil in a position to overtake the United States as the world's leading producer of soybeans....
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