COLLEGE STATION – With little to no grazing and hay, should livestock producers continue to try to buy feed, move cattle to another state or just sell out? "It would be much less expensive to just get out and come back later," said Dr. Larry Redmon, Te

COLLEGE STATION – Recent predictions by the National Weather Service of a 50 percent chance there will be another La Niña in the southern Pacific Ocean this fall can be taken two ways -- with optimism or pessimism, said Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A

COLLEGE STATION – More than 99 percent of the state was in one level of drought or another by the last week of July, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. More than 90 percent of the state was in an extreme drought; 75 percent in an exceptional drough

COLLEGE STATION – Though most dryland crops have failed due to the drought, there were scattered pockets of production, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. "There will be some dryland crops harvested in Texas," said Dr. Travis Mille

COLLEGE STATION -- Faced with lack of grazing, dwindling hay supplies and shrinking surface water sources, livestock producers continue to cull deeper into herds, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service reports. "They're culling a lot deeper than t

COLLEGE STATION -- One of the worst droughts in the state's history deepened, with nearly 98 percent of the state in one stage of drought or another, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.     More than 90 percent of the state was suffering from extr

COLLEGE STATION -- Much of Texas received rain in the last week. Most got only a trace, but from 2 to 4 inches or more fell in isolated areas, according to the National Weather Service. Nearly all the state suffers an exceptional drought, with dryland cr

COLLEGE STATION -- Because of the drought, there's going to be no such thing as dryland crops in the Panhandle and South Plains this year, said Nicholas Kenny, Texas AgriLife Extension Service irrigation specialist based in Amarillo. Despite some areas

COLLEGE STATION -- While drought is bad for practically everything else that grows, it does often promote a good crop of grasshoppers, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service experts. "Grasshopper populations are normally maintained at lower levels

COLLEGE STATION -- With the ongoing drought, livestock producers throughout the state continued to cull herds or liquidate them entirely, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel. Hay stocks were dwindling across the state, th