The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) concluded its Strategic Planning Conference in Long Beach, California, Thursday with the election of new officers for the coming year. Conley Nelson of Algona, Iowa, was elected USMEF chairman. The USMEF has also approved a resolution expressing support for timely negotiation of a U.S.-Japan … Read More
The Servicemember Agricultural Vocation Education (SAVE) Farming for the Future program in Manhattan, Kansas, is developing a 320-acre diversified regional training center. The center includes 20-acre plots of cereal crops, soybeans, and alfalfa, 15 acres of orchards, a commercial honey-harvesting … Read More
On Nov. 16, the Cattle Raisers Museum will open a new exhibition, The Life &Times of Charles Goodnight: Art Exhibition by Lee Cable. The collection is a narrative art exhibit depicting highlights on the life of historical Texas icon Charles Goodnight.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue swore in Dr. J. Scott Angle as the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday, Oct. 30. Angle most recently served as the president and CEO of the International Fertilizer Development Center, … Read More
BASTROP, Texas — Charles Robert Holmes II, 56, of Del Valle and Christopher Lamont Richards Hill, 45, of Bastrop have been indicted and arrested for felony cattle theft. The arrests are the result of an investigation led by Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Special Ranger Kenny Murchison with … Read More
