Farming in Texas

Texas Agriculture Farm Crops
Annual Revenue
(past 5 years average)
Wheat: $266,019,500
Rice: $66,150,238
Grains: $295,142,261
Soybeans: $17,002,572
Sunflower Seed & Oil: $3,780,214
Peanuts: $43,952,385
Cotton: $1,069,281,953
Cotton Seed: $31,939,761
Tobacco: $0
Fruits & Juice: $51,072,181
Tree & Nuts: $22,113,941
Vegetables: $48,952,401
Livestock: $498,093,274
Hides & Skins: $289,657,063
Poultry: $138,490,367
Fats & Oils: $80,230,638
Dairy: $49,637,964
Feeds: $307,688,516
Seeds: $23,677,603
Other: $305,274,772
TOTAL: $3,608,157,603

Texas Agriculture - Google News

A fair trade: Opening Cuba to Texas rice, beef seems sensible - Houston Chronicle

A fair trade: Opening Cuba to Texas rice, beef seems sensible Houston Chronicle Leaders of Texas agriculture are for it because they believe doing so would also open wide the door to more sales of agriculture products to Cuba, ...

Indian export ban takes cotton to 15-year peak - Financial Times

Indian export ban takes cotton to 15-year peak Financial Times The agriculture attaché at the US embassy in Islamabad last week said that Pakistan could import in 2010-11 almost 70 per cent more cotton than previously ... and more »

Students follow legacy of late farm labor leader - San Jose Mercury News

Students follow legacy of late farm labor leader San Jose Mercury News Then they will leave these historic grounds—where the founder of the United Farm Workers is buried—to run after-school centers in California, Texas and ... and more »

Raider Walk draws large crowd - The Daily Toreador (registration)

Raider Walk draws large crowd The Daily Toreador (registration) Although Gus Wood, an agriculture communications major from Clayton, NM, missed the first Raider Walk, he said he definitely wants to go in the future. ... and more »

In year of angry voter, momentum returns to GOP favor - Houston Chronicle

In year of angry voter, momentum returns to GOP favor Houston Chronicle One of the few Democrats making headlines other than White was agriculture commissioner candidate Hank Gilbert, who has been throwing stones at Republican ... and more »

Lamb market at record levels - San Angelo Standard Times

Lamb market at record levels San Angelo Standard Times SAN ANGELO, Texas — The market for lambs continues to hold at record levels, and wool prices are still the highest since the late 1980s, ... and more »

McLennan County Hay Show Sept. 30 at Robinson, Texas - The Farmer-Stockman

The Farmer-Stockman

McLennan County Hay Show Sept. 30 at Robinson, Texas The Farmer-Stockman Samples should be taken to the McLennan County Extension Office, 420 North Sixth Street in Waco, Texas. Robinson High agriculture science teachers are ...

Local union workers reflect on Labor Day and how unions have helped them - LubbockOnline.com

Local union workers reflect on Labor Day and how unions have helped them LubbockOnline.com ... running for Texas representative District 84, and Hank Gilbert, who is challenging the incumbent for the Texas Department of Agriculture commissioner. ... and more »

The Cooper Institute Partners With Texas Department of Agriculture to Improve ... - PR Newswire (press release)

The Cooper Institute Partners With Texas Department of Agriculture to Improve ... PR Newswire (press release) "If this obesity epidemic is not reversed we will, for the first time in history, see children living shorter lives than their parents," Texas Agriculture ... and more »

Moran Letter Requests Farm Bill Hearing in Kansas - Kansas Farmer

Kansas Farmer

Moran Letter Requests Farm Bill Hearing in Kansas Kansas Farmer ... Wyoming, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, South Dakota and North Carolina. "One in five Kansans work in agriculture and food production. Agriculture is not only ...