Judd Hill event focuses on production tactics and values beyond the field.
June 13, 2022
⋅ By Mary Hightower ⋅
A June 22 field day at the Judd Hill Foundation Farm near Trumann, will feature discussions on why sustainability is important not only...
It’s been nearly 90 years since the last “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl swept through the Texas Panhandle, a harrowing storm of topsoil and dust that turned day to night and destroyed the livelihoods of countless frontier farmers....
• By George Watson •
Since its formation in 2005, the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation has promoted water conservation through technology and best management practices in order to improve agricultural sustainability and profitability on the Texas High Plains. One...
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture while improving groundwater quantity and quality...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
As crop production plans are adapting to the declining water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer, cotton is playing an increasingly important role in water conservation.
While relatively new to the northern Texas Panhandle, cotton has a...
Together, siblings Keith Mayberry and Kim Mayberry-Holifield work together to ensure the fourth generation of their family farm continues a tradition of raising cotton near Essex, Missouri. Standing on the same land that their grandfather purchased in the 1940s,...
Growers Tap Cover Crops And No-Till To Aid Soil Health, Cut Input Costs
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
Pigweed was getting the better of Adam Chappell in 2010 when he decided he had to rein in weed control costs if...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
“Cotton and Conservation” is the title of a new series of videos being developed by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and North Plains Groundwater Conservation District.
Dr. Jourdan Bell, AgriLife Extension agronomist in Amarillo, says...
Louisiana Cotton Farmer Honored For Sustainability Leadership And Outstanding Conservation.
As a Louisiana black bear cub meanders along the fields of Somerset Plantation in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, Jay Hardwick is mindful of the important role farmers must play in balancing...
The Arkansas Natural Resources Commission is offering financial incentives in the form of tax credits to state farmers and landowners who make land improvements that help conserve water.
Among the projects that may qualify are building surface water reservoirs, land...
