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March 19, 2009 - As a teenager, Pat Burnett raised and showed Red Angus cattle. After high school, he started a career as a police officer in Terrell and sold his herd to buy a house. Nearly 25 years later, Burnett was back in the cattle business, only th...
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March, 19, 2009 - The question has been asked many times and in many forms: "Who is Bozo Texino?"
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March 19, 2009 - "The thing I like about grafting vegetables, especially with these new techniques -- this is something that small farmers can do," said Dr. Steven King, Texas AgriLife Extension horticulturist.
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March 19, 2009 - Skip Connett and Erin Flynn see themselves as bearers of an agriculture tradition, rather than trailblazers, at Greengate Farms.
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March 19, 2009 - On Aug. 3, 1972 in Amarillo, a rough charter was drawn for Texas to join the American National Cow Belles, a nationwide group of women who had a common interest in the beef industry.
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March 19, 2009 - A few years ago, Wayne McGilvray and his son Chris, realized that ranchers who produced quality beef weren't compensated at the sale barn for the extra effort they put into their cattle. Sale prices were based more on weight than quality....
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March 12, 2009 - We can excuse the tourists and other pilgrims who may be underwhelmed the first time they lay eyes on that most mythic and revered Texas shrine, the Alamo. Even native Texans can catch themselves saying, "Is that all there is?"
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March 12, 2009 - This year marked the 23rd annual North Texas Toy Tractor Show in Gainesville.
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March 12, 2009 - When Larry Orsag says he has been around farming and ranching all his life, what he means is he is one of those people who started driving a tractor when he was five years old.
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March 13, 2009 - Horses have always been a part of Genna and Blake Krohn's lives. In fact, the pair met at a horse show.
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March 12, 2009 - Though it's too early to predict how bad grasshoppers will be in fields and pastures this year, early indications in much of the state point to conditions that allow grasshoppers to thrive and multiply.
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March 12, 2009 - Across the United States, turfgrass producers are engaged in the business of planting, growing and marketing sod on which trillions of feet will trod. According to one South Central Texas producer, turf is a big industry in the Lone Star ...
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March 5, 2009 - For anyone wanting to grow a successful vegetable garden, several decisions must be made before any work can begin, said Joe Masabni, Texas AgriLife Extension vegetable specialist.
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March 5, 2009 - Apparently, a popular pastime in the 19th Century was making up different names for railroads based on the railroad's initials. Most of the railroads had fairly long names and were referred to by their initials or words based on them. In s...
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March 5, 2009 - Landowners and agriculture producers who want to sign up for conservation programs such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) can do so now, even though funding for the programs won't be available until later this year.
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March 5, 2009 - Sam and Cathy Slaughter run Gabriel Valley Farms in the shadow of an old cotton gin that, for many years, was the landmark for the little community of Jonah in Eastern Williamson County.
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March 5, 2009 - As spring approaches, one wild bunch of pests are out and about getting a destructive head-start to the growing season.
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March 5, 2009 - With the economy slumping amidst an ongoing national financial crisis, farmers and ranchers are feeling the pressure and will have to carefully manage their operations in order to survive the coming months.
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