As Certified Angus Beef celebrates their 40th Anniversary, 40 barns across the United States were selected to be a part of their #BrandTheBarn initiative. Rayford and Carla Pullen of Pullen Angus Ranch in Bellevue, were [...]

By: Kay Ledbetter Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contacts: Dr. Jourdan Bell, 806-677-5600, jourdan.bell@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – The Texas High Plains is under extreme drought and if current conditions continue, producers need to make important decisions for summer [...]

By Clay Reid Now I wasn’t always a cowpuncher in my life. Through the years I wore many different kinds of hats. Started out as a dishwasher at the L & M Restaurant in Wichita [...]

By Andy Anderson  I was about 13 years old, my sister 11 and my little brother nine or so. We lived in a small two-story home, typical small family farm and country living you would [...]

By Judy Wade John Farris is a name known and respected by rodeo contestants and fans across the country. Farris worked every National Finals Rodeo in one capacity or another from 1967 to 2013. He [...]

By Corsi Martin  It’s that time of year again. Tiny little hooves are hitting the ground all over America. Foaling season is an exciting, exhilarating and exhausting time for horse breeders all over the nation. [...]

By Krista Lucas  The world’s richest one day rodeo was held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on February 25 for the fifth year in a row. The American was once again a huge success [...]

By Janis Blackwell  One formidable Gator happens to reside in Oklahoma—Burneyville, Okla., to be exact. “Shameon U” (barn name Gator) is a nine-year-old AQHA gelding owned by Cayla Melby Small. The Melby family moved to [...]

By Lauren Lamb, DVM  Rhodococcus pneumonia is one of the most common causes of pneumonia in foals one to four months of age. Rhodococcus equi (R. equi) is the bacterial that causes an infection in [...]

By Phillip Kitts  Well, the 2018 rodeo season has reached the next phase, and with this next phase there will not be much influence on the world standings, but there are big changes in competitors’ [...]

Photo and description by Jean Stimpson Jean Stimpson said, “We had a long winter, more snow than we’ve had in years and below zero temps lasted longer than they should have. But with the purple [...]

By Jessica Crabtree Driving north of Henrietta in Clay County up Farm to Market road 810 will lead you to the small community of Charlie. There you will find tree after tree of pecan and [...]

By Jessica Crabtree  The Easter holiday makes you think of colorfully decorated eggs, Easter dresses, candy and of course the Easter bunny. But how did the Easter bunny come to be associated with the Christian [...]

By Russell A. Graves “We’ll start a fire on both sides of this field and it will eventually burn together,” says Dale Rollins as we ride his side-by-side utility vehicle along the ranch’s interior roads [...]

By: Adam Russell Most planted sorghum fields in good shape, unplanted areas dealing with drought Writer: Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, adam.russell@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Ronnie Schnell, 979-845-2935, ronschnell@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Sorghum fields have been planted in much of the [...]

By: Kay Ledbetter Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: David Graf, 940-716-8610, cdgraf@ag.tamu.edu WICHITA FALLS – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a Rolling Plains Wild Pig Management Workshop April 25 in Wichita Falls. “There’s [...]

By Samantha Hall Sept. 2, 1954, the leading trainer in Australian racing, Tommy J. Smith, and his wife Valerie welcomed their brand new baby daughter Gabriel into the world. She would be known as Gai. [...]

By: Kay Ledbetter Panhandle’s moisture-deficient winter offers prime drought-tolerance measurements Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jackie Rudd, 806-677-5600, jcrudd@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – The Texas A&M AgriLife Research dryland wheat variety nursery near Bushland is being monitored [...]

By Russell A. Graves  The sun was just peaking over the water when we launched from the boat ramp near Rockport. Beautiful and calm, the waters of Aransas Bay sit behind the expansive San Jose [...]

By Rayford Pullen I’m so happy spring is here I can’t stop grinning. Bull decisions are made this time of year that can impact our herds for the next 10 to 20 years if we [...]