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Body Wheat acres are expected to increase in Texas, but dry, warm conditions are delaying many plantings for now, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

Body AUSTIN—The Texas Railroad Commission issued a total of 801 original drilling permits in September 2021 compared to 437 in September 2020.

Body The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is currently seeking applicants for collegiate student internships across Texas. Student trainee positions include soil conservationists, rangeland management specialists, and engineers.

Body USDA expands local, electronic communication options TEMPLE—Agricultural producers in Texas can now sign up to receive free email and text messages directly from their local U.S.

Body AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he will send cities, counties, transit systems, and specialpurpose taxing districts $906.6 million in local sales tax allocations for October, 20.6 percent more than in October 2020.

Body DALLAS—Five subsidiaries of West Texas Gas Inc.

Body WASHINGTON—Today, Congressmen Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Filemon Vela (D-TX) introduced the bipartisan Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act, which would combat foreign interference in America’s agriculture supply chain through reforms to the Committee on Foreign Investment...

Body AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.15 billion in September, 22.3 percent more than in September 2020. The majority of September sales tax revenue is based on sales made in August and remitted to the agency in September.

Body Speakers of international, national, state, and regional prominence will talk on shifting the hope-diminishing paradigm that the Ogallala aquifer must inevitably be depleted to zero during Coming Together Around the Water Table, a day-long discussion and tour to be held Oct.

Body Rangelands in the Great Plains, and the ranchers who depend on them, are losing battles against an invasion of brush and shrubs on historical grasslands.