farm & ranch
TSCRA convention will prepare cattle producers for future
Fort Worth – Timely topics and tough issues will be addressed during the breakout sessions at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association ( TSCRA ) 133rd annual convention March 19-21 in...
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CattleFax’s Blach to discuss market at cattlemen’s convention
Fort Worth – A state-of-the-industry review of the cattle market will be presented at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association ( TSCRA ) 133rd annual convention March 19-21 in Fort Wo...
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Congratulations to the newly elected and re-elected 2010 Farm Service Agency county committee members. They are: Bee County — Troy Berthold, COC representative and Arturo Gaitan, first alternate...
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What does health care reform mean for Texas ranchers?
Fort Worth – As Republicans and Democrats prepare to begin negotiating health care reform in Congress, ranchers in Texas are wondering what to expect from new reforms and how their families and sm...
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NRCS accepting applications for Wetlands Reserve Program
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TEMPLE – The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications from landowners interested in wetlands restoration through the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP). For more i...
O’Brien Ranch horse places in top five at San Antonio Ranch Gelding Stakes & Sale
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San Antonio – Playguns Royal Moon, a 6-year-old gray gelding raised on the O’Brien Ranch of Beeville, placed Top Five in the San Antonio Ranch Gelding Stakes & Sale held during the San Antonio Stoc...
Morón saddles up for first rodeo
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The Beeville Horse Committee held a playday at the coliseum for children of all ages on Saturday, Feb. 27. Lauren Morón, 2 years old, was one of the youngest to participate. She was entered in five...
Ranchers, landowners to gain valuable tools at TSCRA’s School for Successful Ranching
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Fort Worth – Ranchers and landowners from across the state will gather in Fort Worth for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s (TSCRA) 16th annual School for Successful Ranching d...
NRCS announces funding for Organic Farming Initiative
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TEMPLE – The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced a special initiative of $50 million, of which Texas will be receiving more than $4.4 million, to provide financial assi...
AgriLife research, regional horse breeders seek answers to reproductive seasonality in mares
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Research is currently underway at the Texas AgriLife Research Station-Beeville and the Texas A&M University Horse Center in College Station to address an important and economically challenging prob...
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FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2009 file courtroom drawing shows David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan an attack on a Danish newspaper says a coconspirator wanted newspaper employees beheaded to make a statement.


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In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, Colleen LaRose, right, is seen before U.S. Magistrate Lynne A. Sitarski at the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia, Thursday, March 18, 2010. LaRose, who authorities say dubbed herself 'Jihad Jane' online, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin)AP - A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.


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South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford, left, introduces former NFL football coach Tony Dungy to inmates at Broad River Road Correctional Complex on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, in Columbia, S.C. Dungy told minimum security inmates at the complex that no matter their mistakes, they can choose the right direction and gain redemption. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday.


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Graphic shows select locations of swine flu vaccine distribution when there was a short supply In Oct. and Nov.AP - Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho.


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