Texas
Texas cattle producers seek clarity and consistency over who has jurisdiction to decide disputes regarding ownership of water rights, the court system or the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
For Texas livestock owners, the registration of brands, earmarks, tattoos and other forms of animal identification expire every ten years at the end of August.
A Texas jury has awarded a $30 million verdict to a cattle company after a three-year legal battle over withheld DNA verified pedigree information.
Livestock from the U.S. move through Texas in route to Mexico every day. Animals rejected for export could be moved somewhere in Texas without proper testing and treatment, creating vulnerability for Texas ranchers.
San Pedro Ranch, located near Carrizo Springs is the recipient of the 2021 Texas Leopold Conservation Award®. The ranch is owned by siblings Joseph Fitzsimons and Pamela Fitzsimons Howard and their families.
Thanks to contributions from across the U.S., Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Disaster Relief Fund mailed checks totaling $112,750 to cattle raisers financially burdened by February’s Winter Storm Uri.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows from North Dakota to Texas, all the way west to California, the most severe levels of drought didn’t ease across the U.S. this past week.
Cupid Shuffle became the first Hereford chosen as Grand Champion steer at the Fort Worth Stock Show since 1982, bringing back memories of Conoco, the first crossbred picked as champion in a major show 51 years ago.
The 420,000-acre Brewster Ranch, now for sale in far West Texas, was assembled over several years by Kentucky businessman Brad Kelley.
A south Texas rancher reports he measured more than 100 inches of rainfall in each of the last two years. That’s about 2.5 times more than the annual average for the area.
The founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is newsworthy because she’s a rancher turned vegan, but her ideas that she can “rescue ranches” with fundraisers and donations is both alarming and absurd.
Four people were injured while trying to corral a bull in southeast Texas. Two were airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.
HeartBrand Beef Inc. praised Judge Gregg Costa’s order confirming a jury award of $1.825 million in punitive damages against Bill Koch’s Colorado-based Bear Ranch, finding it fraudulently obtained hundreds of full-blood Akaushi cattle once held by the family-owned Texas company.
Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course features cattle market outlook and trends.
Flooding in Texas might help rebuild cowherds in the state and lower beef prices.
Texas ranchers have voted to establish a state-level program to promote and market beef in the nation’s leading cattle-producing state.
President Pete Bonds today made the following statement after the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) announced the results of the Texas Beef Checkoff referendum.
Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border say the disease carried by fever ticks has devastated their operations.
The south Texas beef packer formerly known as Kane Beef has reopened under the name of STX Beef.
Food Network Chef and former NFL star Eddie Jackson has been named Chief Recipe Officer for Beef Loving Texans to develop unique, timely recipes and partnering as an ambassador for the brand.
Ranchers in Kansas and Oklahoma learned more about how grasslands recover after wildfire in a joint educational seminar hosted by Extension personnel from Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University, at Snake Creek Ranch, on the state border. According to Extension sources, plentiful precipitation will be the greatest help in getting grass regrowing.
Another way to manage old world bluestem using glyphosate is by doing a one-time application of 2-3 pounds per acre once the plant begins early heading.
Police officers and firefighters in various parts of the country have been lending a hand caring for cattle and here are some social media posts that show them in action.
The Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association announced Treadwell Cattle. Co, Christoval, Texas, as the winner of the Outstanding Rangeland Stewardship Award.
“For too long, cow-calf producers across the nation have marketed our cattle with one hand tied behind our back. The culprit has been an ever-growing lack of price discovery.”
“Many trial courts in Texas have been resistant to allowing landowners to fully challenge a private entity’s use of eminent domain,” says Texas lawyer James D Bradbury. “This opinion changes that.”
TSCRA director Carl Ray Polk Jr. says his group will “always embrace progress, but not when it comes at the expense of our members or when it violates our private property rights.”
“Cattle production is an essential part of our daily lives,” writes TSCRA president Robert E. McKnight, Jr. “I am proud to be part of an industry that works to care for the people, livestock and land of this country.”
Lawsuit challenges authority to implement “Operation Drawbridge” on private property outside a 25-mile border zone.
A man in Texas went to jail after he admitted to stealing six head of cattle during a drunken conversation and two of his fellow cattle rustlers are in trouble, too.