Some farmers are betting that consumers would pay more for eggs if they knew the chickens that made them were healthy and well-treated. The hard part is figuring out where your eggs come from. Because ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Wednesday, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller warned of a “newly detected and highly damaging pest.” According to the commissioner’s office, the pasture mealybug, aka ...
Julia Falcon is a digital content producer at CBS News Texas. Julia has previously written for news outlets across Dallas-Fort Worth like the Denton Record-Chronicle, D Magazine, 1080 KRLD and 105.3 ...
HOUSTON — Texas ranchers and hay producers are being urged to take a hard look at their pastures after state officials confirmed a highly destructive new pest has arrived in the Lone Star State. Texas ...
Because the autonomous Fendt equipped with the iQuus system from GPX Solutions can now drive in reverse, subsoiling grassland is also possible without the soil being pushed up while turning. A test at ...
In the U.S. egg consumption is on the rise—one person eats an estimated 300 eggs per year. And it’s easy to see why. Eggs are “one of the most bioavailable sources of protein you can eat,” said Vicki ...
Eggs are back on the supermarket shelves and shoppers have a variety to choose from. Bird flu outbreaks have caused egg shortages over the past 18 months, limiting consumer options. Caged, barn-laid, ...
With their pre-dawn milking done, about 80 cows ramble into the dewy pastures of the Paris Family Farm in Belleville, Wisconsin, to graze. “This is a much better sound than turning on a tractor,” says ...
Sheep don’t graze like cattle — and that difference could be a major advantage. Kansas State University veterinarians Brad White and Todd Gunderson along with beef cattle nutritionist, Phillip ...
The National Project Coordinator of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project, Sanusi Abubakar, has announced bold steps to commercialise pasture production in Nigeria as part of a ...
In Indiana, pastures are generally (but not always) relegated to land that is too steep and rocky for row crops. The soils tend to be shallow, low in fertility, and droughty. The dominant plant ...
Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...