March 23, 2010 RSS feed / Agribusiness

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Team enters tractor restoration contest

Lampasas High School seniors Josh Biggs, Colton Baker, Tate Stoneham and Cory Carpenter traveled to the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo recently as part of the FFA Tractor Restoration Team. More...

Good showing

Kleg Kennedy (shown) and his sister, Kirby, exhibited the reserve champion Duroc gilt at the National Swine Registry's Southwest TYPE Conference at the Bell County Expo Center. More...

Brigades accepting youth, adult applications

The Texas Brigades is accepting applications for its summer 2010 camps; both youth and adult are due April 1. More...

USDA to propose expanding poultry loan guidance

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA will expand guidance currently in place for loans to contract poultry operations meant to protect them from questionable business practices to include contract pork operations. More...

Cattle Auction

The report from the March 17 sale at Lampasas Cattle Auction is as follows. Cattle and calves: Estimated receipts 472 compared to 629 last week and 481 last year. More...

NRCS extends deadline for farm program

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has extended to April 2 the applicaton deadline for certified organic production funding. More...

State to receive funds for mapping, planning

Texas will receive $2.5 million in grant funds from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to map the state of Texas for comprehensive broadband coverage through an initiative called Connected Texas, according to Commissioner More...

County youths experience stock show success

Local youths had success in the steer division of the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo. Braedon Raub and Trilby Holloman placed fourth, and Blayze Bierschwale, Jordan Langford and Layton Irvin each had eighth-place showings. More...