Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

Landscape architecture for spring and summer garden featuring a pond. (Adobe Stock-#451868350 │ rabbitti)
Home and Family, Outdoors

Learn how to create and care for a wildlife pond in your backyard

Planning a backyard pond? Site selection, sunlight and water movement are critical to maintaining water quality and supporting wildlife. Read More

Despite lower commercial honey production, small-scale beekeepers in some regions of the state reported stronger honey yields during the 2025 production season. (Courtney Sacco and Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Other Crops, Regional Roundup, Southern Region, Texas

Texas beekeepers navigate a mixed honey harvest

Boiled Crawfish. (iStock-#139402992 │ FMontoya)
Regional Roundup, Southern Region, Texas

Texas crawfish outlook strong despite early harvest delays



Texas A&M AgriLife Extension specialist Jayla Fry demonstrates laying cardboard for sheet mulching in a garden. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Use cardboard to stop weeds in your garden

Hands with chicken meat in shop. (Adobe Stock │ #367675022 - Sergey Ryzhov)

Experts expect shift in chicken prices amid fertility, bird flu concerns

A rain garden designed to capture and filter stormwater. The garden uses native plants and engineered soil to slow runoff and reduce localized flooding. (Texas A&M AgriLife)

Nature-based toolkit helps Texas communities

Adult and nymph two-spot cotton leafhoppers (Rafia Khan/Texas A&M AgriLife)

AgriLife Extension shares cotton jassid guidance for green industry

A bumper hay crop is starting to dwindle as supplies are being used in the wake of dry weather. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

High demand dwindles hay supplies as dry weather persists

A rain garden designed to capture and filter stormwater. The garden uses native plants and engineered soil to slow runoff and reduce localized flooding. (Texas A&M AgriLife)

Nature-based toolkit helps Texas communities plan for stormwater management

Protecting backyard chickens from avian influenza takes implementation of a consistent biosecurity regimen that reduces the potential for the virus to be introduced to your farm. (Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M AgriLife)

What is avian influenza? Fast facts on ‘bird flu’ in the U.S.

Texas cotton producers face early drought concerns and shifting market conditions heading into the 2026 planting season. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Texas drought, shifting markets shape 2026 crop outlook