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Vilsack announces Cattlemen’s Beef board appointments
Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack recently announced 29 appointments to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. All appointees will serve three-year terms. “These appointments rep...
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BCJLHS announces horse show results
The results are in for the 2012 Bee County Junior Livestock & Homemakers Show Horse Show held last Saturday, Jan. 28. The results are as follows: Performance/Judged Events Junior Showmanship: 1...
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DCP, ACRE sign-up starts
Beeville – Bee County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Darren Pruski announced recently that sign-up for the 2012 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Rev...
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Tri-County CEU Day coming Dec. 1
BEE COUNTY — Area livestock and forage producers are invited to this year’s Tri-County CEU Day on Dec. 1. The seminar will be held at Beeville Livestock located just east of Beeville on Highway 59....
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cattin’ around
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Contributed photo Bill Brandau shot this photo of what he believes could be a bobcat outside of his home on Kai Lane. Friends have speculated that it has the head of a bobcat but the length of the...
Bee Farm Bureau members approve eminent domain, water rights resolutions
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The Bee County Farm Bureau held its 61st annual membership meeting at the Bee County Expo Center on Oct. 7. President Ellis McKinney called the meeting to order, welcomed all the members and guests...
Strip-till, legume-cover crop system could help growers
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BEEVILLE – Two years ago, when Dr. Jamie Foster was moving from Florida to become a Texas AgriLife Research forage agronomist in South Texas, her job almost hit her in the face, literally. “When...
San Pat Club to host roping
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The San Patricio Riding and Roping Club is looking to add to the participants for their upcoming playdays at Welder Park in Sinton, located on U.S. Hwy. 181, on Oct. 8, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3. Cost wil...
New sales tax exemption registration for agriculture and timber operators
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AUSTIN — Beginning Jan.1, 2012, farm, ranch and timber operators who produce agricultural and timber products for sale will need a special registration number to claim a sales tax exemption on taxa...
More than $150 million goes up in smoke this year in agriculture
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COLLEGE STATION – Since January, Texas agriculture has seen more than $150 million in agricultural losses due to wildfire, and experts say those figures are expected to continue to roll upward like...
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Reuters - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.
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A protester walks along barricades with his personal belongings as U.S. National Park Service police cordon-off the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square in Washington, February 4, 2012. Police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields arrived at the site where protesters with the Reuters - Police removed bedding and most tents on Saturday at an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule at a public square that has housed protesters for months.


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Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.
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Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason
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