Agricultural producers now can enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs – two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) safety net programs – for the 2020 crop year.

Cattle are great at camouflaging when they are sick. It's part of their survival instinct. But what if you could detect illness before a calf showed clinical signs?

Everybody who makes a living in the beef industry wants more efficiency, especially if it doesn’t sacrifice carcass quality. Animal scientist Dean Pringle says a University of Georgia (UGA) team is finding more ways to satisfy both input and output goals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) is expanding its payment options to now accept debit cards and Automated Clearing House (ACH) debit.

A bull follows a cow that is in heat at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton South Farm. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Adam Russell)

Producers in Armstrong, Bowie, Burleson, Collin, Ellis, Fannin, Floyd, Grayson, Hunt, Jackson, Lipscomb, Matagorda, and Red River counties who suffered losses due excessive moisture and flooding that has occurred since Sept. 1, 2018, may be eligible to apply for emergency loans.

David Graf, right top, and Calvin Trostle, right bottom, were among the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service team who visited Ryan Wainer’s Rocky Ford Hemp farm in Colorado. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kay Ledbetter)

A sounder of wild pigs roams the Texas landscape. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo courtesy of Dr. Billy Higginbotham)

Bill Rooney, Ph.D., looks at the back of a box of cereal that features the Onyx sorghum variety he bred as a part of Texas A&M AgriLife's efforts to meet the needs of the food industry. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kay Ledbetter)

Redfish are trending upward in price and consumer demand along with other alternative species like hybrid striped bass compared to traditional aquaculture species like catfish. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Dr. Todd Sink)

Criollo cows in Chihuahua, Mexico. (courtesy photo)

The First Annual Western Heroes for Autism Rodeo will be held in Decatur, Texas on Saturday, October 12, with a dinner planned Friday, October 11.