*Texas cotton planting is running behind this year.
*Some cotton acreage will be planted in grain and forage crops due to insurance deadlines.
*Texas Senator John Cornyn has introduced the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act.
*The weather outlook is promising as Texas High Plains feedyards continue to work their way through the effects of recent heavy rains.
*Wheat export programs in the Farm Bill are very important to the wheat industry.
*Wheat harvest and spring planting are moving forward in the Texas Rolling Plains.
*Most cattle producers castrate their bull calves, but some do not.
*Oklahoma has just confirmed their very first case of CWD in a wild deer.
