*The cold weather is shutting down cattle marketing.  

*USDA has given preliminary approval to a vaccine to prevent avian influenza in chickens.  

*This is National FFA Week.

*There are some indications that cow herd rebuilding may be getting underway.  

*A bill designed to expand school milk options has been reintroduced in Congress. 

*Thousands of volunteers help to put on the San Antonio Stock Show.  

*The past two weeks shows the variation we can see in a Texas winter.  

*A genetic abnormality has been discovered in Angus cattle.