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JCB building new Texas factory

By Scott Garvey August 6, 2024

U.K.-based JCB, which produces light construction equipment, the Fastrac ag tractor and Loadall telehandlers, broke ground in early June on a new 720,000-square foot factory on a 400-acre site at San Antonio, Texas. The project will cost US$500 million. It will be the company’s largest North American manufacturing plant, second only in size to its […] Read more

File photo of chicks on a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

H7N3 avian flu found in chickens in Mexico, near Texas border

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 25, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico’s agriculture ministry on Saturday reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic H7N3 bird flu virus in two hatching egg production barns in the northern state of Coahuila, which borders on Texas. The strain in question has existed in some regions of the country since 2012, the ministry said in a statement. […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

By GFM Network News August 29, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby. About 1.2 million cattle are located in a 54-county disaster area drenched by […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

Harvey’s rains sending fuel prices higher

By GFM Network News August 28, 2017

Houston | Reuters — U.S. fuel prices surged on Monday as two more Gulf Coast refiners cut output and a third considered reductions, leaving more than 13 per cent of the country’s refining capacity offline after Tropical Storm Harvey flooded plants and shut seaports. The storm swung back over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

U.S. Plains wildfires leave thousands of cattle dead

By GFM Network News March 9, 2017

Austin | Reuters — Fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly two million acres of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches and left thousands of cattle and other livestock dead, officials said Thursday. Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched prairie land in the Texas […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Cargill to sell two Texas feedlots

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 8, 2016

Reuters — Cargill, a top U.S. meat processor, said Friday it will sell two Texas beef cattle feedlots to Amarillo-based Friona Industries pending final agreements and regulatory reviews. Under the deal, Friona will acquire Cargill’s cattle feedlots at Bovina and Dalhart, Texas. Cargill said in a statement it will retain ownership of its cattle feedyards […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Texas fertilizer plant blast deemed criminal act

By GFM Network News May 11, 2016

Reuters — A blast that killed 15 people three years ago triggered by a fire at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas was a criminal act, a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigator said Wednesday. ATF Special Agent in Charge Rob Elder said a reward of up to US$50,000 was being offered […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Live cattle drop as beef prices, packer margins erode

CBOT Weekly: Soybean, wheat futures come down

Masterfeeds to enter new ADM/Alltech feed joint venture

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Live cattle drop as beef prices, packer margins erode

CBOT Weekly: Soybean, wheat futures come down

Masterfeeds to enter new ADM/Alltech feed joint venture

Tag Archives Texas

JCB building new Texas factory

H7N3 avian flu found in chickens in Mexico, near Texas border

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

Harvey’s rains sending fuel prices higher

U.S. Plains wildfires leave thousands of cattle dead

Cargill to sell two Texas feedlots

Texas fertilizer plant blast deemed criminal act

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