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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 in the United...

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.

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. 27, from 9 am to 5 pm,...

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.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week that he was sending cities, counties, transit systems, and special-purpose taxing districts $925.1 million in local sales tax allocations for September, 20.9 percent more than in September 2020.

AUSTIN—Data from the Texas Workforce Commission suggests that Texas upstream oil and natural gas employment expanded by 2,800 jobs in August. Also, July’s estimated job gain in the upstream sector was raised to 2,100 from the original 1,500.

‘Business of Water’ is theme of Water for Texas 2021 conference Register now for the Water for Texas 2021 conference, which will be held Monday-Wednesday, Sept. 27-29, at Austin’s AT&T Hotel and Conference Center.

TEMPLE—The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Texas will hold a meeting of the State Technical Committee next Tuesday, Sept. 14, from 8:30-11:30 am via Microsoft Teams/Teleconference.

CANYON—After raising more than $1 million in 20 years, the West Texas A&M University Ag Development Association will continue its annual Ag Day festivities Sept. 11.

AUSTIN—The Texas Railroad Commission issued a total of 687 original drilling permits in August 2021 compared to 451 in August 2020. The August 2021 total includes 613 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, 10 to re-enter plugged well bores, and 58 for re-completions of existing well bores.