Texas Ag Today - January 1, 2025

*Should Texas cattle producers be concerned about screwworms entering the state?  

*President Trump has picked the number two official for U.S. agriculture.  

*Texas farmers and ranchers will be the biggest beneficiaries of the new economic aid package approved by Congress.

*The Texas High Plains silage boom continues.  

*There will be four new faces representing Texas in Washington D.C.   

*It’s a new year, a new month, and there’s a new weather forecast for Texas.  

*Water was one of the top issues in Rio Grande Valley agriculture last year.  

*The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the Monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.  

*Congenital myotonia is a neuromuscular disease in goats.