Rajasthan's agriculture minister and FICCI announce the Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet, set for Jaipur on November 9-11, 2016, with a July 25 Mumbai roadshow and press conference covering state grants, regulations and policies for agriculture and allied sectors.
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Agriculture
Sweet Success for New Rice-Blend Products
CrispTek has released brownie, cookie and muffin mixes built on a rice-flour blend patented by Agricultural Research Service chemists. The blend absorbs less oil than other batters, the products are free of common allergens, and the mixes are in more than 1,500 stores.
Agriculture
Cattle prices weakening as result of slower fed cattle marketings
A Texas A&M AgriLife economist told a Franklin beef program that feedlots are holding cattle 180 days or more instead of the usual 120 to avoid losses on expensive feeders. Slaughter weights and beef tonnage are climbing, and producers should brace for lower near-term prices.
Agriculture
Cow Country Congress set for Oct. 23 at Maysel Ranch in Fairfield
Beef producers meeting at Maysel Ranch near Fairfield on Oct. 23 will hear Texas A&M AgriLife Extension speakers on preparing cattle for the feedlot, feral hog trapping with the BoarBuster, proper hay storage, and advocating for agriculture.
Agriculture
Study examines decline of Texas livestock auction markets
Texas had 167 livestock auction markets in 1969 and only 92 by 2013, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension study found, with drought-driven herd losses behind the consolidation. Beef cow numbers peaked near 7 million head in the mid-1970s and now run about 4.2 million.
Agriculture
Key performance indicators can lead to cattle profits
Texas A&M AgriLife economist Stan Bevers laid out 13 key performance indicators for ranchers at the Beef Cattle Short Course, from pounds weaned per exposed female and revenue per breeding female to net income ratio and return on assets. He built them from standardized ranch data.
Agriculture
SEALD SWEET expands grape production
Seald Sweet International announced long-term commitments and financial investments to expand its Mexican table grape supply, mainly around Hermosillo and Caborca, with executives citing customer demand in the grape category and fair labor standards among its growers.
Agriculture
Storage options for hay discussed at Blackland Income Growth Conference
Texas A&M AgriLife's Stephen Hammack told the Blackland Income Growth Conference that tightly rolled, net-wrapped bales lose less hay than twine-wrapped ones. LSU research found 3 percent loss in a pole barn, 9 percent under a tarp and 15 percent outside unprotected.
Agriculture
Infrared-Based Peeling of Tomatoes
USDA scientist Zhongli Pan and colleagues tested infrared heating on more than 6,000 Roma tomatoes and found it loosens the tight-fitting peels with almost no water. That could cut what California canneries spend on water and on treating the wastewater left by lye peeling.
Agriculture
A New 'Gem' of a Pear Released by ARS, Cooperators
USDA, Oregon State, Michigan State and Clemson jointly released Gem, a fresh-market pear that resists fire blight and superficial scald. It keeps at least 28 weeks in cold storage, and tasters rated it comparable to Bartlett on appearance and flavor.
Agriculture
Livestock show animal health focus of recent Texas A&M AgriLife workshop
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ran a workshop, on campus and online, on preventive care and treatment for livestock show projects, with speakers from show officials, veterinarians and a meat specialist. Organizers said the program reached 200 participants from across Texas.
Agriculture
Four-state cattle conference set Dec. 10 in Texarkana
The Four States Cattle Conference runs Dec. 10 at the Four States Fairgrounds in Texarkana, Arkansas, with Colorado State's Temple Grandin as featured speaker. Registration is $30 including lunch, and those signing up by Dec. 1 enter a drawing for a $250 VetGun.
Agriculture
Conference theme is future use of water and its impact on agriculture
The Texas Plant Protection Association conference in Bryan on December 10-11 takes the future use of water and its effect on agriculture as its theme, and includes a session on canola, whose acreage has grown past 300,000 acres across the Southern Great Plains in the past decade.
Agriculture
Compound from Bacteria Could Be Useful Against Pecan Scab
USDA scientists found that bacteria living in the guts of beneficial nematodes make compounds that suppress Fusicladium effusum, the fungus behind pecan scab. The most toxic extract contained trans-cinnamic acid, active at low concentrations in lab cultures.
Agriculture
"2,000 Bull Project" Targets Cattle Traits
USDA's Agricultural Research Service began its 2,000 Bull Project in 2007 in Clay Center, Nebraska, gathering genomic profiles of 2,000 bulls across 16 breeds. For each breed it supplied the first substantial high-density genotype set for breed improvement programs.
Agriculture
Rebuilding the Beef Herd program set Sept. 25 at Camp Cooley Ranch
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will hold Rebuilding the Beef Herd at Camp Cooley Ranch near Franklin on Sept. 25, covering market outlook, forage and stocking management, replacement heifer options and leased grazing, plus a ranch tour. Cost is $25 including lunch.
Agriculture
Eng symposium to explore innovative practices in cow-calf systems
Texas A&M will host the second annual Kenneth and Caroline McDonald Eng Foundation Symposium, 'Innovative Intensification in Cow-Calf Systems,' on September 18-19 at the Embassy Suites Riverwalk in San Antonio, with researchers from Nebraska-Lincoln and Oklahoma State taking part.
Agriculture
Texas crop, weather for Aug. 12, 2014
Drought and low aquifer levels have left Texas Winter Garden growers short of irrigation water, and they are abandoning traditional August plantings such as cabbage, says AgriLife horticulturist Larry Stein: "Little showers aren't going to do it. We need a flood."
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