From vegetables, fruits, proteins, and dairy… One ingredient is key to ensuring we have all parts of your well-balanced plate assembled at the dinner table: Water.
This valuable natural resource is needed to make our crops grow to be bountiful before they head directly to your plate, or are used for feeding livestock that eventually arrive in your fridge as a meat protein or dairy. Farmers understand the importance of water conservation, and are working daily to ensure it lasts for generations – keeping food on our grocery shelves.
Farmers conserve water in many ways to produce a fruitful crop: from varieties of plants that are drought-tolerant, to soil health, to advanced technologies to ensure its used timely and efficiently.
Rodney and Susan Schronk recently had guests for dinner at their farm outside of Hillsboro, Texas. These guests weren’t just any guests though, they were Texas legislative staff, community leaders…
Producers in the Panhandle-South Plains region are reminded that cost-share funding is still available for installation of irrigation system monitoring equipment, soil moisture probes, and other irrigation management equipment through…
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its partners encourage farmers to “keep the stubble” on their harvested cropland fields and improve soil health during a special month long…
Catastrophic. This one word sums up the impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas Gulf Coast. It’s still far too early to fully assess the impact of the storm that…
