Texas Ag Today - April 3, 2024

*Preserving the Livestock Risk Protection program is a top priority for cattle feeders.  

*There are fewer hogs and pigs in Texas right now.  

*A poultry facility in the Texas Panhandle has contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  

*The Texas wheat crop is now in the home stretch.  

*Texas cotton farmers are looking forward to another growing season.  

*The United States is losing farmers and farmland.  

*Planters are beginning to roll in North Central Texas.  

*It’s lambing time for many sheep herds.