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*The Texas wheat harvest is now 63% complete, but rain is still causing a lot of harvesting headaches.  

*Triple digit temperatures are causing major heat stress on livestock.  

*There are four openings for Texas beef producers on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.  

*The Texas High Plains should be seeing some dryer weather soon.  

*There are two corn diseases that Southeast Texas farmers need to watch for.  

*A new law passed by the Texas legislature will provide improved liability protections for Texas landowners and lessees.  

*A beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina tested positive for an atypical case of BSE.  

*The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been studying how Aoudad or Barbary sheep can impact our native Big Horn sheep.