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AMARILLO—The Amarillo-area beef community presented a check for $105,500 to the Snack Pak 4 Kids (SP4K) Beef Stik program. The money will provide beef sticks to hungry students through the Snack Pak weekend hunger program.

AUSTIN—The Texas Railroad Commission received reports of crude oil and natural gas production from 166,923 oil wells and 85,439 gas wells in June. From July 2020 to June 2021, total Texas reported production was 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil and 10.1 trillion cubic feet of total gas.

A mini-ag conference, How to Enhance Profit from Ranch to Rail, will be conducted on Tuesday, Sept. 14 by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Hemphill County on the West Texas A&M University campus in Canyon.

Agricultural land values in the U.S. are increasing at a rate not seen in nearly a decade.

“Rural America lost more population in the latest census, highlighting an already severe worker shortage in the nation’s farming and ranching regions and drawing calls from those industries for immigration reform to help ease the problem,” Gant Schulte and David Pitt report for The Associated Press.

PAMPA—Zachary Mayer, P.E., has been named as the new area engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Pampa area office, effective Aug. 9.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.39 billion in July, 13.5 percent more than in July 2020. The majority of July sales tax revenue is based on sales made in June and remitted to the agency in July.

The Panhandle District QuickBooks Pro Desktop Short Courses by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be on Aug. 25 in Amarillo and Sept. 8 in Lubbock.

ALBUQUERQUE—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is extending the deadline for public comment on the proposal to list two distinct population segments (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

AUSTIN—Data from the Texas Workforce Commission suggests that Texas upstream oil and natural gas employment expanded by 3,100 jobs in June—the fifth best single-month performance in over five years.