Texas A&M Forest Service is awarding $8.25 million through the Texas Climate-Smart Initiative, a financial incentives program to fund non-industrial, private, small-acreage landowners. The five-year project, led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and funded by the USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant, will provide financial incentives to agricultural commodities across Texas.
COUNTY 4-HERS TAKE ON SAN ANTONIO RODEO MARKET LAMB SHOW
COLORADO COUNTY 4-H MEMBERS TAKE ON COMPETITIONS
COLLEGE STATION – With three consecutive years of severe weather conditions throughout Texas, including extended hard freezes and droughts, East Texas trees have become vulnerable to secondary threats. These threats include cedar bark beetles, Ips engraver beetles, Hypoxylon Canker disease and cedar rust fungi.
While winter is the ideal time to prune trees, pruning after recent droughts and freezes may cause more damage than good this year.
At one point or another, millions of adults across the globe have resolved to be more physically active. The benefits of routine exercise are too numerous to cite, but some of the more notable ones include a lower risk for chronic disease and illness, improved self-esteem and greater overall health.
Colorado County members of the Bluebonnet Master Gardener Association are pleased to announce the upcoming Colorado County Lunch-N-Learn Series in Winter/Spring 2024 focused on gardening and horticulture.
FLAG OF THE MONTH CHOSEN BY SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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The John Everett Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution and Robert Rankin No. 62 Sons of the American Revolution recognized Rick and Wendy Haley for their American Flag display for the month of December. It is located at 207 McCormick St. in Columbus.
WASHINGTON - The U. S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide more than $3 billion to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2022. Eligible impacted producers can apply for financial assistance through the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) 2022. The program will help offset the financial impacts of crop yield and value losses from qualifying disasters occurring in 2022.
AUSTIN – Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has opened applications for the 67th Texas Game Warden and State Park Police Cadet class, aimed at those interested in joining the next generation of elite state law enforcement officers.
RICE TAKES TOP FIVE IN FFA CONTEST
WEIMAR FFA QUIZ TEAM TAKES TOP PLACEMENTS
WEIMAR FFA GREENHANDS GETS FFA JACKETS
My first seafood was a stuffed crab at Hill’s on the Galveston seawall in the 1940s. Later, summering at my grandmother’s home on the river west of Seguin, we had Sunday dinner at the Aumont Hotel. I ordered fried Gulf trout every time. I don’t know whether they were speckled trout, sand trout, or gafftop catfish -- I loved every bite!
COUNTY 4-HERS TAKE ON STATE FAIR OF TEXAS DAIRY JUDGING CONTEST
WEIMAR FFA AWARDS MEMBERS OF THE MONTH
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued more than $1.77 billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. Right now, CRP’s more than 667,000 participants received payments from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) for their voluntary conservation efforts on more than 23 million acres of private land. Since 2021, CRP has grown by 21 percent in terms of acres enrolled, testament to the Biden-Harris administration’s program improvement efforts.
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