By Nathan Smith Any self-respecting Texan knows the significance of this Friday. On March 2, we stop to remember the Alamo and pay our respects to the Texians who fought and won independence from Mexico. I am a big fan of Texas country music and recently bought an album titled The Eagle and the Snake. Most [...]
By Kelly Bogard This week, Texas Farm Bureau has been celebrating Food Check-Out Week. Food Check-Out Week is all about promoting Texas agriculture, sharing facts about food and opening the lines of communication between farmers and consumers. As someone who works with farmers and ranchers, and as a consumer of their products, I get to [...]
By Gene Hall My mother, one of the world’s gifted peacemakers, often told me, “There are two sides to everything.” Bridging the gap between some anti-agriculture activists and farmers and ranchers is a pretty big challenge, but as Mom said, there are two sides. There are a lot of people out there who have not [...]
By Nathan Smith Most years on the Southern High Plains of Texas, farmers like Brandon Patschke and his family are busy growing the fabric of our lives—cotton. Brandon is a Texas Farm Bureau member and grows cotton on his family farm near Lubbock. Farmers like Brandon come from generations of families with decades of practice weathering [...]
By Amanda Hill It’s an election year and, even just a few months in, we’re all hearing messages of government spending, the federal deficit and our annual budget. Part of that conversation is the farm bill, which is scheduled to be updated this year by the Senate and House agriculture committees. Sometimes politicians point to [...]
