SAN ANGELO – The Texas AgriLife Extension Service office in Tom Green County will be offering its annual “Last Chance” Continuing Education Unit Course from 12:30 – 6:15 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center. The center is north of San Angelo on U.S. Highway 87. Five credits will be available Read More... More Info...  

ABILENE — The annual Texas Farm, Ranch, Wildlife Expo is set for Feb. 21-22 on the grounds of the Taylor County Expo Center, located at 1700 State Highway 36 in Abilene. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 21 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 22. The event is sponsored by the Read More... More Info...  

  COLLEGE STATION – Texas AgriLife Extension Service has joined with state and federal financial policy, consumer credit and banking organization partners to bring the Young Texas Saves initiative to youth statewide through its Texas 4-H program. “Young Texas Saves is a community-based effort to empower youth to increase saving and become more financially capable,” Read More... More Info...  

AMARILLO – Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Potter County is offering “Private Pesticide Applicator License Training” on Feb. 9 at the AgriLife Extension office, 3301 E. 10thAve., Amarillo. The training session begins at 8 a.m. and will conclude before noon, said Brandon Boughen, AgriLife Extension agent for Potter County. The training will give participants the Read More... More Info...  

News and updates about Texas A&M AgriLife LEVELLAND – The Texas AgriLife Extension Service office in Hockley County will conduct two pesticide applicator-related trainings beginning in February. One training will be their annual “Last Minute CEUs” training, set from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Feb. 25 in the South Plains College Founders Room in the student center located on CM Sanders Drive, Read More... More Info...  

AMARILLO – A “Calving and Proper Drug Use” clinic will be conducted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Potter County Feb. 13 at the AgriLife Extension office, 3301 E. 10th Ave. in Amarillo. The clinic will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude around 3 p.m. A $20 registration fee includes lunch and will be Read More... More Info...  

AMARILLO – Renda Nelson has been hired as the Better Living for Texans regional program manager for the north region of Texas AgriLife Extension Service, according to the program’s state coordinator. Nelson started Feb. 1. She will serve all counties with Better Living for Texans programs in the Amarillo, Lubbock and Vernon districts. Her office Read More... More Info...  

  COLLEGE STATION – A team of scientists studying the effects of electron-beam irradiation on iceberg lettuce and spinach has had its research published in the February issue of the leading microbiology journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, said the study’s lead investigator. The study quantified the theoretical health-risk reduction from virus-related foodborne illness through the Read More... More Info...  

MULESHOE – The Feed Grains Conference conducted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service is set from 8:30 a.m.-noon Feb. 10 in the Bailey County Coliseum, 2206 West American Blvd., in Muleshoe. Three Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be available for those with a private applicators license. “The conference will target feed grain Read More... More Info...  

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources is hosting a conservation science and social media seminar Feb. 13 for those interested in embracing social media to communicate science. The seminar will be 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the College Station Convention Center, 1300 George Bush Drive, College Station. Registration is Read More... More Info...  

In case you haven’t found out already, the new Facebook timeline is a gem for stalking. It pretty much cuts your time in half, if not more. Since my blog post for today turned into more of a 1,000+ word essay, I had to come up with something different. I decided to flip back a [...] More Info...  

Cattle Welfare. The cattle are here, it’s what we do. It’s our passion and this business if our livelihood. Bottom line is the cattle are handled better today than they ever were before. The words of this Colorado cattle feedlot operator couldn’t be more representative of cattlemen across the country. On farms, ranches, and many [...] More Info...  

Do a google search for Agriculture Blog and you’ll return a long list of great agvocates sharing the story of food production around the globe. During the past few years this trend has really taken hold, but we still have a long row to hoe in closing the gap between consumers and their food sources. [...] More Info...  

In case you missed it last night… Every other Thursday evening you can find a group of forage and livestock producers and enthusiasts chatting it up on Twitter. It’s like a meeting at the coffee shop, only we’re spread out from one end of the country to the next: Canada to Texas and New Hampshire [...] More Info...  

“Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today.” Ok, so when Mitch Daniels added this statement to his State of the Union response on Tuesday night, he might have been stretching things a bit. I don’t normally touch on political subjects, because honestly there’s too much lobbying and money swapped [...] More Info...