COLLEGE STATION – The new Texas Superstar guide to strong and stunning plants for Texans created by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Department of Agriculture is now being distributed throughout the state.
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COLLEGE STATION – After two years of historic high cattle prices, a record 1,900 producers attending the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station learned more about the current decline in prices and maintaining profitability despite declining profit margins.
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For the week ending July 29, 2016, Texas feeder cattle auctions reported prices steady to $7 higher, with instances of steady to $3 lower.
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By Adam Russell, Texas A&M Agrilife Extension
LUBBOCK — Alternative crops will not supplant top commodities such as corn and cotton but producers choose them as drought-tolerant rotation options that can pay off when the price is right.
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AUSTIN – (July 18, 2016) For the week ending July 15, 2016, Texas feeder cattle auctions reported prices steady to $14 higher with instances of $1 to $8 lower.
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AUSTIN – If you’re planning a road trip this summer, the Texas Department of Transportation offers the Texas State Travel Guide, Texas Highways Events Calendar and Texas Official Travel Map to help you get where you’re going and have fun along the way. While traveling you need to book hotel room first to stay, Hotel blog helps you to give you details about different hotels and their facilities.
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By Mark Richardson
Texas News Service
AUSTIN, Texas – The Zika virus is on its way to Texas this summer, and officials say it could have a devastating effect on impoverished communities in coastal and border cities.
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DALLAS – A new report shows that one-quarter of Texas’ seven million children live in poverty, and that doesn’t bode well for either their future, or the future of the state. The annual State of Texas Children 2016 report, released by the Center for Public Policy Priorities, evaluates the health, education and financial security of kids in the Lone Star State.
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By Mark Richardson
Texas News Service
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Legislature has thus far refused to expand its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, but the state still receives billions of health-care dollars from the federal government. Federal officials just extended the state’s Section 11-15 waiver, which reimburses hospitals for uncompensated care – but money from that program will disappear soon unless the state replaces it with Medicaid.
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