COLLEGE STATION — Marketing education and training pay dividends and improve the bottom line for farmers and ranchers, especially in light of the challenges they face today. With that in mind, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service is offering Master Marketer programs in Vernon and Waco. “The Federal Agricultural Improvement Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996 presents…
Contact: Dr.Gene Nelson, (979) 845-2116, nelsong@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — A noted spokesman for agriculture and an assistant to President Bush were the inaugural inductees to Tyrus R. Timm Honor Registry of Former Students of Agricultural Economics at ceremonies recently during the department’s annual reunion of former students. C. G. “Charlie” Scruggs, an avid speaker on…
COLLEGE STATION — Though good weather patterns signal a great pumpkin crop this year, an economist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service advised consumers to get to the store early for the best jack-o-lanterns. “If you want the best ones, you need to get there early when you see pumpkins coming in to the supermarkets,”…
COLLEGE STATION — The weather has been good for this year’s cotton crop, much unlike the droughty conditions of 1996. The latest estimate places the Texas crop at 5.4 million bales, up from a little over 4.3 million last year, according to Dr. Carl Anderson, agricultural economist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Last year’s…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101 E-mail: j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Greg Clary (903) 834-6191 E-mail: g-clary@tamu.edu AMARILLO – A key to a successful home-based business is planning, and it should be carried out at several stages of the enterprise, a management economist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service told entrepreneurs attending a seminar here. You have…
COLLEGE STATION — Beef alliances may bring cow/calf producers a little more leverage, according to an agricultural economist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Alliances are usually coordinated efforts to cross different sectors of the beef industry, said Dr. Ernie Davis of College Station. Cow/calf operators make an alliance with cattle feeders, packers and retailers….
AMARILLO — A forum on “Delivering Risk Management to Wheat Producers” will be held at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens, 1400 Streit Dr. on Aug. 19-20. The conference, sponsored by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, is open to all financial lenders, insurance agents, elevator operators, marketing consultants and Extension Service educators in the wheat-producing areas of…
LUBBOCK–A crisis exemption allowing area grain sorghum producers to use Tilt fungicide to control sorghum leaf blight has been issued by the Texas Department of Agriculture. The disease in sorghum fields across the Texas High Plains has been brought on by unusually wet and cool weather early in the growing season, said Dr. Harold Kaufman,…
COLLEGE STATION — High prices and wet weather have caused many producers to turn to soybeans as a substitute crop this year. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture Chief Economist Keith Collins, the shift in acreage is partly due to the increasingly strong soybean prices in the late spring. “Those soybean prices attracted a little…
COLLEGE STATION — Texas voters will be able to vote on a school property tax amendment on Aug. 9 that could have an impact on their homestead exemption and the tax freeze for people who are 65 years old or older. Economist Dr. Judith Stallmann of College Station said House Bill 4, passed at the…
