Camp County Farm Bureau

01/21/2025

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Meeting tomorrow has been canceled due to an electrical issue at the building. See you in February.

07/28/2024

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Enter our Young Farmer & Rancher contests for your chance to win some cool prizes! But HURRY! Applications are due online Aug. 2.

✔️Applicants for the contests must be between 18-35 years of age.
✔️Applicants must be involved in agriculture full-time or part-time.

Contest details and prizes>> https://txfb.us/YFRcontests24

07/13/2024

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Sign up is open for Farm From School – Fall 2024! This popular program is open to K-5 public, private, or homeschool classes in Texas.

It's a virtual opportunity for students to engage with farmers and ranchers to learn more about agriculture. And it connects to grade-level concepts! Classes will meet virtually with a farmer or rancher once a month from September-December.

Sign up by Aug. 14: https://txfb.us/ffsregisterfall24

Get the full program details: http://txfb.us/farmfromschool

12/07/2023

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11/11/2023

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Red. White. And blue. God bless America and our veterans. Honoring all who have served today and every day!

11/01/2023

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Early voting is underway. This is YOUR chance to support family farms and ranches in Texas. Vote YES for Prop 1!

Early Voting: Oct. 23 – Nov. 3
Election Day: Nov. 7

10/14/2023

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New record-keeping app for cattle now available

A newly developed app allows cattle ranchers another option to keep livestock records on their smart phones.

Kansas State University agricultural economics and veterinary medicine staff developed the record-keeping app, CalfDex.

The app is free and was designed for use in the field, even when ranchers do not have cell phone service.

Kansas State University livestock economist Ted Schroeder said CalfDex enables producers to maintain efficient and accurate calving, weaning and treatment records, which helps mitigate the risk of data loss or misplacement that can happen with paper records.

“Our team is eager to provide users with a convenient and easy-to-use modern animal data management tool to keep pace in an ever-changing industry,” Schroeder said. “Considering the growing importance of information exchange in the beef supply chain, there is value in an application that has the ability to store and upload data at the whole-herd and individual animal levels, while also facilitating easy downstream data sharing.”

There are five tabs users can choose to enter data, including calving, processing/vaccination, treatment, weaning and postweaning.

The data is also stored across calving seasons for easy access, and provides for simple downstream data sharing and allows users to protect their information by establishing a unique email address and password.

The app simplifies the data collection process for ranchers, Schroeder noted. CalfDex was developed with the user in mind and is available on both iPhone and Android devices.

“Because it has the capability to track multiple herds and individual animal information, CalfDex is tailored to meet the needs of all sizes of calving operations, from large purebred enterprises to a 4-H or FFA student beginning their first beef breeding project,” Schroeder said.

The project was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program.

For more information on the app, including a description of its functions, click here.

A tutorial is available at calfdexapi.azurewebsites.net.

Questions can be sent to [email protected].

07/08/2023

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05/04/2023

The proposed constitutional amendment on the right to farm and ranch in Texas will be on the ballot this November! That's YOUR chance to support family farms and ranches in Texas!

Read more: https://txfb.us/RTFupdate

12/28/2022

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K-5 teachers can sign up for our Ag Literacy Week Book Program March 20-24.

It’s FREE! We’ll mail teachers the accurate ag book titled “I LOVE Strawberries!” Plus, we’ll send an educator’s guide. Teachers who post a photo of the book being read in class using the hashtag and tag us will be entered into a drawing!

Sign up by Feb. 1: https://bit.ly/agbooksignup23
More program details: https://txfb.us/agliteracybook

10/21/2022

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Put this on your calendar! More details later.

08/03/2022

We have people ask us quite often if they should castrate their bull calves or not….the answer is yes.

Below is a comparison between the prices on 5-8 weight steers vs. bulls for this week. As you can see, it’s quite a difference.

No, it’s not always this big of a gap, typically you’ll see $8-$10/hundred pounds difference - with the drought situation and cost of feed being so high, buyers will pay a little more for one they don’t have to castrate and add to their stress level. When cattle are stressed, they don’t gain weight.

07/29/2022

07/27/2022

Supplemental Feeding - Rangeland Drought Management for Texans Series

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07/26/2022

We are one week away from the 68th Annual Beef Cattle Short Course! Early registration is open till Wednesday and we will also offer on-site registration the day of. To view more details regarding online registration, please visit: https://beefcattleshortcourse.com/participant/

07/24/2022

Q: My young baldcypress are turning brown. Are they dying?

07/20/2022

Stretching Hay Supplies - Dry Cow on Low Quality Hay

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07/20/2022

Looking for option for destocking strategies? Be sure to read the publication below

https://animalscience.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2012/04/beef-destocking-strategies.pdf