Texas Ag Groups Ask For $13 million To Fight Fever Ticks
Courtesy of the TSCRA Web site
Three leading Texas beef cattle groups have joined forces to request "desperately needed" funding to fight the current fever tick infestation in South Texas.
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Texas Cattle Feeders Association and the Texas Farm Bureau asked Acting Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner to authorize the release of $13 million from the Commodity Credit Corp. to help eradicate the economically devastating pest.
"The number of cattle fever tick infestations in the permanent quarantine zone and in the tick-free areas of Texas has increased to an alarming level in recent years," the groups said. Read more on the TSCRA Web site.
Cow Manure Generates Power in Texas
Courtesy of the Market Day Web site
Gas from cow manure will be used to heat 11,000 rural Texas homes in the nation's biggest operation to convert manure to methane.
An $18.5 million plant in Huckabay Ridge, about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, solves two problems, locally and globally.
It gets rid of the 141 pounds of manure each of the 52,000 dairy cows in rural Erath County produces daily, and it creates a new energy source that doesn't pump additional tons of carbon dioxide, a "greenhouse gas," into the atmosphere. Read more on the Market Day Web site.
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