COVERING GROUND
County pecan show unites with Fort Bend
PETER MCGUILL
      The Wharton County Pecan Show will join forces with Fort Bend County for 2007. Pecan quantity and quality issues throughout the county this year have resulted in a small pecan crop.
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Texas ag groups ask for $13M to fight fever ticks
      Three leading Texas beef cattle groups have joined forces to request "desperately needed" funding to fight the current fever tick infestation in South Texas.
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Lack of rain a factor once again
      Recent warmer temperatures have helped with the cotton harvest in some areas, but the statewide lack of rain has slowed crop production overall, according to Texas Cooperative Extension reports. Winter pastures and smallgrains fields are struggling to survive, and producers statewide are irrigati...
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