2025 Olton Livestock Show results

The 2025 Olton Livestock Show was held last week, Jan. 16th through the 18th with the sale taking place on Saturday.There were eight steers, 12 heifers, 66 barrows, 18 lambs and 12 goats exhibited this year.Claire Senter of Olton 4-H won both Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion Goat.

Get to Know Ag's Champions in Congress Part 1: Agriculture Appropriations

Editor’s Note: We are introducing a short series of articles in the next few issues of Cotton News detailing the Representatives and Senators serving on the House Agriculture Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and the House Ag Appropriations and Senate Ag...

USDA Announces 2025 Enrollment Periods for Safety-Net Programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the 2025 enrollment periods for key safety-net programs including the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Diary Margin Coverage (DMC).

What you Need to Know About Economic Assistance and Disaster Assistance

• $10 billion in total funding for all eligible commodities• 90- day period for USDA implementation• Eligibility based on 2024 FSA-certified planted acres and 50% prevent-plant acres• Skip-row acreage granted parity with solid plant acreage for this programWhat you should know: Assuming Brooke...

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Senior USDA Nominees Announced

President- elect Trump an-nounced four nominees for senior USDA roles this week: Richard Fordyce, Dudley Hoskins, Luke Lindberg, and Michael Boren.Fordyce has been nominated to serve as Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation.

Recycle your denim

Since 2006, Cotton Incor-porated’s Blue Jeans Go Green program has collected denim (made from cotton) so it can be recycled back to its original fiber state and transformed into something new.

NRCS Texas Conservation Stewardship Program application submission date approaching

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) would like to remind those interested in consideration for enrollment into the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) that applications must be submitted to the local NRCS field office by Jan.

Clelia Davis Named to SNHU Dean’s List

Clelia Davis of Muleshoe has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2024 Dean’s List. The fall terms run from September to December.Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.500 to 3.699 for the reporting term are named to the Dean’s List.

County Conservation Partners to host annual Local Work Group Meeting on Feb. 5th

Water Conservation Districts are seeking input from the public on how to best serve local citizens through Farm Bill con-servation programs and technical assistance. The public is invited to attend their Fiscal Year 2026 Local Working Group (LWG) meeting February 5, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.