The recently passed Texas budget bill includes a low interest loan program for farmers. The $100 million program aims to help ...

While state leaders say growers can still produce industrial hemp, farmers say they will quit growing the plant altogether ...

Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state ...

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would protect oil and gas companies from liability if fracking water is used on crops ...

As Texas fruit growers battle unpredictable chill hours and late spring freezes, a small, but growing, group is turning to lesser-known or “alternative” fruit crops in search of more resilient and ...

On a sunny morning in May, several dozen schoolchildren squatted by a wire fence, their hands cupped to the beaks of pecking ...

The Texas Legislature has invested millions in research to clean the fracking wastewater. Critics say it’s not a viable ...

The money would be enough to feed an estimated 3.8 million low-income children over the summer months, when schools are out.

LUBBOCK, Texas — Six years ago, Texas lawmakers opened a door to a new lifeline for farmers: growing hemp. Farmers invested time, money and land into growing the drought-resistant crop and ...