High School Counselors at Amherst, Anton, Levelland, Littlefield, Olton, Sudan, Whiteface, and Whitharral, have received messages from the Lamb County Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors, that they are pleased to announce that the Cooperative will be offering scholarships to Cooperative members’ graduating high school seniors, who are electing to attend a college or university in the state of Texas. No trade schools, etc.

The Lamb County Senior Citizens’ Center will re-open for noon lunches Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at 211 Phelps Avenue in downtown Littlefield. Those attending are invited to take food in covered dishes, to share with others, or by a donation of $6 to the center.

Littlefield’s Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will be serving its 2021 Banquet, starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening, April 27, 2021, in the Lamb County Ag and Community Center, just off Highway 385 (17th and Hall Avenue) in Littlefield.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is EXTENDING the deadline from March 5 to April 9, 2021 for agricultural producers to apply for the Quality Loss Adjustment (QLA) Program because of recent winter storms and some clarifications to program rules. This program assists producers who suffered crop quality losses due to qualifying 2018 and 2019 natural disasters.

Congressmen Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Henry Cuellar (DTX) introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at helping the Texas agriculture community recover from the recent winter storm. H.R. 1692, the RESTORE (Rehabilitating Economic Success Through Overcoming Rural Emergencies) Act, would help our farmers recover from natural disasters by reauthorizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildfire Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to cover natural disasters from 2020 and 2021. This program previously provided payments to producers to offset losses from natural disasters that occurred in 2018 and 2019.

On Wednesday, March 10, afternoon, Senator Ted Cruz (RTexas) sat down to meet with members of Plains Cotton Growers and the Texas cotton industry via a Zoom conference call to discuss issues important to the cotton sector and provide an update on current issues in Washington, D.C.

The Lamb County Soil and Water Conservation District is currently taking orders for the Spring Windbreak Tree and other plants sales. There is a variety of trees and other plants available, but everyone interested is strongly encouraged to get orders in as quickly as possible to ensure the variety and quantity of the trees and plants are available.

The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol recently announced that March 31, 2021 is the deadline for producers who have not completed their U.S.