*The West Texas cotton crop has made a turn for the worse.  

*Extreme and exceptional drought continues to spread in Texas.  

*The ending of the port workers strike is good news for agriculture.

*Halloween is bringing an unhappy trick for the Texas corn industry.  

*A Texas congressman and the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee are asking the GAO to review the decision to allow fresh beef from Paraguay.  

*Cotton harvest is slowly getting underway in the Texas Southern Plains.  

*It feels like fall in the Central Texas Blacklands.  

*Now is the time to assign a body condition score to all your beef cows.