Adopting the ecologically sensitive, low-cost conservation management pasture-cropping practice could help landowners regain the health and resiliency of soils sustaining degradation over the years.

This year, when alfalfa growers start seeing the menacing cotton root rot showing up in their fields, they can rest assured that almost 120 years after it was first characterized, Texas A&M AgriLife researchers have helped find a control for the fungus.

Increasing levels of dietary fumonisin do not adversely affect feedlot cattle performance, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in Amarillo, Texas.

Dairy owners might be able to add more to their bottom line if they introduce a beef bull into their breeding program for some of the producing cows in their herd, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist said.

Texas A&M AgriLife officials are offering some best management practices for producers to keep in mind as harvest continues and for next year after fumonisin contamination has been found in truckloads of corn across the Texas High Plains.

Mapping the resilience of woody plant encroachment to brush-control techniques can help landowners prioritize management and restoration actions to maximize the effectiveness of costly brush reduction, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research study.

A healthy agri-ecosystem is critical to productive, stable rangeland, according to Richard Teague, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research rangeland ecology and management scientist at Vernon, Texas.

New landowners interested in learning to better manage their ranch’s resources while protecting the environment can do so during the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Ranch Management University on the Texas A&M University (TAMU) campus in College Station.