Weather lauds Texas normal but warnings linger
The Weather Service and Fort Worth office say Texas weather remains within long term averages for spring. Officials note a volatile pattern with storms from the Pacific Northwest but insist the season should return to normal by April and May, despite recent wetness and crop concerns.
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Jim Brigance
Associated Press
Weather Service
Fice
National Weather Service
Fort Worth
Texas
Jeter Pruett
Pruett
Pacific Northwest
Tapp recognized for screwworm job
County Extension Agent Paul Tapp of Reeves and Loving counties received a special recognition from the Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation and the Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program. The award notes the program’s impact since 1962 saving Southwest livestock producers about 1 billion dollars in damages.
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Paul Tapp
Reeves and Loving
Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation
Southwest
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
C.G. Scruggs
Swahef
Tapp
Scruggs
M.E. (Cotton) Meadows Jr
Meadows
Texas farmers to receive crop acreage questionnaire
About 24 000 Texas farmers will get a crop acreage questionnaire in late May. Charles E. Caudill leads the survey for Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service to determine planted acreage by county. The program is a cooperative effort of USDA and the Texas Department of Agriculture.
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Texas
Charles E. Caudill
Agricultural Statician
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Austin
USDA
Statistical Reporting Service
Texas Department of Agriculture
Pruett
White
Rio Grande Valley
Galveston
Bayou
Beaumont
Texas Panhandle
Dallas County
Grandpa
Farm price index sinks 1.5 percent in April
The Agriculture Department reported a 1.5 percent drop in the farm price index for the month ending April 15, led by lower hog, cattle, calf, lamb, and milk prices. Wheat and vegetables rose, offsetting some losses while the index remains 32 percent above last year.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Party
Texas studies grain sorghum pest control program
The Texas Agricultural Extension Service launches a three year study on grain sorghum pest management centered in Edmonson community Hale County on the South Plains. Project leaders include Dr Robert C McIntyre and Gene Latham with 20 000 acres to monitor for beneficial insects and minimal insecticide use.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Edmonson
Hale County
South Plains
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Grian Sorghum Producers Board
Lubbock
Ollie Liner
Gene Latham
Paducah
Latham
Texas A&m University
Robert C. McIntyre
Liner and McIntyre
Liner
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Ten-year-old dairy cow tops Texas milk records
Hopkins County dairyman Bill Jack Allen owns Nonr-Star Far Fuschia Blossom, a 10-year-old Holstein Friesian in Brinker. The cow produced 35,332 pounds of milk and 1,105 pounds of butterfat in a year, topping Texas records per the National Holstein Friesen Association.
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College Station
Tex
Hopkins County
Texas
National Holstein Friesian Association
Bill Jack Allen
Brinker
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Allen
Paul Herschler
Blossom
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