A 13-member state board meets Monday afternoon in Austin to approve the next batch of certified prescribed burn managers — a credential that decides, under Texas law, whether a landowner can be sued when a deliberately set fire gets away.
Eight weeks into the first New World screwworm outbreak on U.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller praised a limited reopening of the U.
A new infestation in a Sutton County goat, confirmed July 21, pushed the United States tally of New World screwworm to 42 cases — up from the 41 reported last week, when the parasite reached Starr County on the Rio Grande for the first time — but the more telling number this week is how few of those cases are still live.
The Texas Department of Agriculture and the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority have awarded nearly $22.
The Texas Department of Agriculture is urging ranchers, hay producers and landowners across the state to begin watching their pastures for pasture mealybug, an invasive insect that Texas A&M AgriLife Extension has now confirmed in 70 Texas counties.
New World screwworm has been confirmed in Starr County for the first time, carrying the outbreak into a Rio Grande border county and pushing the U.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller declared an Agricultural Emergency on July 16 in response to catastrophic flooding across Central and South Texas, activating Texas Department of Agriculture relief resources for farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses recovering from widespread flood damage.
Confirmed New World screwworm infestations in the United States have risen to 39, according to the U.
Six Texas universities are among the recipients of a $105 million federal research push against the New World screwworm, the U.