November 10, 2014 Last week Texas Wheat traveled to Corsicana to present at the annual Navarro County Food and Fiber Roundup. The one-day event held in the Navarro County Exposition Center invited elementary schools, primarily fourth graders, to learn about where their food … Continued
The fourteenth annual Texas Commodity Symposium will be held Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Amarillo in conjunction with the Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show in the Grand Plaza Room at the Amarillo Civic Center. The free event will begin at 9:30 … Continued
October 22, 2014 AMARILLO – Farmers and landowners in the Panhandle will have an opportunity to learn more about the farm bill in a second round of educational meetings conducted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. The series of … Continued
October 20, 2014 Article by Chris Clayton, DTN/The Progressive Farmer Wheat scientists and breeders at the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue on Friday pushed for more research programs for the crop and stressed that genetic engineering will be needed to grow … Continued
[ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]October 17, 2014 The 2014 World Food Prize was presented to Sanjaya Rajaram, Ph.D., on Oct. 16, at the World Food Day. Rajaram was selected for his scientific research that has led to an impressive increase in world … Continued
October 3, 2014 According to the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS), Texas wheat producers harvested 67.5 million bushels this year, down from 68.2 million in 2013 and down from 96.0 million bushels in 2012. Statewide yield averaged 30.0 bushels … Continued
September 26, 2014 (updated Sept. 30, 2014) On Thursday, Sept. 25, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack released information on the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs that were created in the 2014 farm bill. According to the … Continued
The new wheat disease notification tool, developed by the AgriLife Research Plant Pathology Program in Amarillo, is offered to alert producers to the detection of wheat viruses during the growing season or to the onset of disease epidemics throughout the … Continued
(the following is an excerpt from the Southwest Farm Press story, Farmers insist RMA has ample time to implement APH adjustment for 2015, posted Aug. 25, 2014. Read the entire story here.) The Texas Wheat Producers Association continues to take issue … Continued
August 22, 2014 AMARILLO – The National Wheat Foundation is accepting applications for the 2014 Wheat Industry Leaders of Tomorrow (WILOT) program, scheduled for November 15 to 20 in St. Louis, Missouri. WILOT is an annual five-day program designed for … Continued