Allan McGinty of San Angelo said warm temperatures coupled with above-average rainfall have stimulated significant plant growth within pastures resulting in excellent and improving forage quality and quantity for many Texas ranchers. Ryegrass pastures are doing well, allowing some cattle producers to reduce hay feeding. High fertilizer prices may trigger a decline in this year's forage production. Warm spring weather with moisture is providing ideal growing conditions for cool season...

A gas field services company will be in court this morning demanding extra keys to gates that New Mexico ranchers locked last week in protest of what the ranchers say is mistreatment of the land. Other industry officials have said gas producers try toprotect the environment while producing energy vital to the nation. The Blancetts are one of three ranching families who last week locked gates across access roads on their land near Aztec. Gas extraction companies use the roads to access gas...

They just don't tell you about what they do with 90 percent of the animals that aren't adopted or recovered by their owners. After she launched into a tirade about how the ranchers wouldn't be in this situation if they had treated the animals differently, Peterson was repeatedly asked how an organization that was supposed to care about animals could let thousands of cattle starve to death. The American Reporter Vol. You people are so far beyond hurting your work, a story about how PETA...

Victor says they look for cows that do well foraging on grass in the field, because the cows walk to their food, it isn't brought to them as it would be on most commercial farms. There are 38 milking cows at Appleton, and they all have to be bred once a year, by artificial insemination, to make them good, steady milk producers. Within 12 hours of being delivered, calves are led away from their mothers and pushed out the barn door to face the world on their own, and it's all for the...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Sanchez: Staving off GMO invasions By Benedicto Sanchez Nature Speaks I PLANNED to write an Easter column about the resurrection and the "afterlife" of some former high-ranking Maoist cadres who returned to their childhood Christian faith. Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Sanchez: Staving off GMO invasions By Benedicto Sanchez Nature Speaks I PLANNED to write an Easter column about the resurrection and the "afterlife" of some former high-ranking Maoist cadres who returned to...