WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this week announced that beginning in April it will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk, as part of the $3.1 billion to help distressed farm loan borrowers that was provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The announcement builds on financial assistance offered to borrowers through the same program in October 2022.

Ogallala Commons, a nonprofit education and leadership organization, invites local food producers/crafters, educators, and the interested public to attend its Red River Foodshed Local Food Summit in Pampa on Thursday, May 11.

The Canadian Wildcats and Lady Cats swept their competitors last week in the District 1-3A meet held at Amarillo’s Tascosa High School. The Varsity and Junior Varsity boys and girls teams simply dominated the overall team championships: Canadian’s Varsity players piled up 71 team points over Spearman’s 22 and Dalhart’s 12, while the Junior Varsity boys and girls collected a total of 71 points versus Spearman’s 20 and Dalhart’s 19.

Rupert Murdoch: “It is not red or blue, it is green.”