FB president issues challenge
      Texas Farm Bureau President Kenneth Dierschke challenged Farm Bureau members to join him in a year-long effort to achieve "meaningful reform" of Texas eminent domain laws during his annual address to delegates at the Texas Farm Bureau's 74th annual convention.
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Master Naturalist class slated to begin
      An opportunity to learn about native plants and animals of this area will be available this spring through a class sponsored by the Highland Lakes Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists. The mission of the TMN program is increasing a person's knowledge of natural history, and then applying that know...
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Annual winter trout stocking under way
      For an inexpensive, entry-level fishing experience the entire family can enjoy, it doesn't get much easier than winter rainbow trout fishing in Texas. From now through March, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will stock upward of 275,000 hatchery-reared rainbow trout at about 120 sites acro...
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Convention attended
      Thirteen voting delegates from Lampasas County Farm Bureau recently participated in the 74th annual Texas Farm Bureau Convention Dec. 1-3 in Waco.
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Ag Notes
      IRS Form 1099-G According to Mark Tays, county executive director for the Lampasas/Burnet Farm Service Agency, producers who have repaid a market gain on a Commodity Credit Corporation loan with cash or commodity certificates in exchange for outstanding loan collateral will now have their market ...
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Strong feed grain demand boosts ag export outlook
      The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service raised its forecasts for U.S. fiscal year 2008 exports, predicting sales could eclipse the previous record set in the last fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2007.
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Not the Easter bunny
      Brittany Freeman watches her dad, Rod Freeman, discuss handling and care of rabbits for competition as part of a workshop for 27 freshman ag-science students enrolled in Dr. Steve Forsythe's class.
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Cattle Auction
      The report from the Dec. 19 sale at Lampasas Cattle Auction is as follows. Cattle and calves: Estimated receipts 632. Lampasas Cattle Auction had 840 last week. Feeder steers and heifers steady; slaughter cows $3-$5 higher; and bulls steady.
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Ag competition
      Four wildlife and recreation classes of Wes Harris competed in the fourth annual taxidermy/tanning competition, which included best cleaning, scraping and tanning of a hide.
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Special delivery
      FFA member Colton Baker, above, checks orders after delivery of fruit baskets that completed the fall fund-raiser, while agriscience student Curtis Smith, below, helps unload the fruit truck that came from South Texas.
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Cornyn: Immigration is one of top priorities
      Passing a farm bill quickly and coming up with a viable solution to the immigration problems in the U.S. will be a high priority for Texas Senator John Cornyn after his recent return to Washington D.C. Cornyn spoke with the delegates of the 74th annual Texas Farm Bureau state convention in Waco r...
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NRCS readies for ag census
      The United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service is urging farmers and ranchers to participate in the 2007 Census of Agriculture. The National Agricultural Statistics Service will conduct the census, upon which all USDA agencies rely.
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