Blogger Katie Pratt says caretaking is what farmers do. Caring for houseplants seems a natural progression of those farm duties during the winter months.
USDA is releasing 100 million sterile screwworm flies weekly along the Texas-Mexico border to prevent the pest's northward spread. This proactive measure, combined with surveillance and import restrictions, aims to protect U.S. livestock from the devastating parasite.
All cattle and calves in the United States as of Jan. 1, 2026, totaled 86.2 million head, slightly below the 86.5 million head on Jan. 1, 2025, USDA NASS reported on Friday.
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Quote of the Day
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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Albert Camus, (1913-1960), Nobel Prize winning European Author
