Despite rain, South Texas crop losses could hit $100 million
Despite drenching rains April 28, drought-stricken row crops growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley may be in for another disastrous year, possibly doubling their $50 million drought losses of 2006, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts in Weslaco. “Reports of failed acres of cotton, grain sorghum and corn have not yet started…
Atascocita FFA Chapter attends Annual Agricultural Education and Texas FFA Day at the Texas State Capitol
(Humble) – Atascocita FFA Chapter attended the fourth annual Agricultural Education and Texas FFA Day at the Capitol hosted by the Texas FFA Association and the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association of Texas (VATAT). The Agricultural Education and Texas FFA Day at the Capitol was held February 26, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Atascocita FFA was one of more than 50 chapters that comprised more…
Water for farmers? – TCEQ Director approves LCRA’s emergency drought relief
TCEQ – In Nov. 2012, Lower Colorado River Authority requested emergency relief from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality related to its Water Management Plan due to persistent drought conditions in the Highland Lakes. LCRA filed an Amended and Supplemental application for emergency relief with the TCEQ on Jan. 11, 2013 based on worsening drought conditions and with unanimous…
Ghost for 1950s Drought Haunt Texas 2015
Lake Arrowhead was built in the 1960s to supply water to the city of Wichita Falls near the Texas-Oklahoma line. For the last several years, drought has depleted what was once a popular destination for recreation. As of this spring, the reservoir at Lake Arrowhead as about 20 percent full. Like many of the state’s…
37 Percent of Texas now in Extreme to Exceptional Drought – up 30% in 3 months
The U.S. Drought Monitor is reporting that All drought categories expanded across parts of Texas, resulting in Exceptional Drought covering virtually all of the Texas panhandle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports indicated that 78% of Texas and 72% of Oklahoma topsoil was short or very short of moisture. The good, bad, and dried out realities of…