Legal Beef
How a Koch brother and a Texas rancher got crosswise.
How a Koch brother and a Texas rancher got crosswise.
Taking stock of small-town stock shows.
Mason ISD launched a high school viticulture program to help create the next crop of Texas's grape growers.
The real-life adventures of Leland Snow, the Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation.
How the drought led to a revival of America’s only native caffeinated drink.
The short answer: Maybe, but it’s not likely to succeed.
Isha Datar of non-profit New Harvest outlines what she believes could change the meat industry.
These six splendid wineries are setting the standard for Texas viticulture.
Chip Tate built Balcones into one of the country’s most innovative whiskey distilleries. But last year he lost the company in a bitter clash with his investors. Now he’s starting from scratch—again.
A decade and a half after I wrote about the poor quality of Texas wines for this magazine, Lone Star vintners are starting to turn heads.
The founder of Austin’s maverick Jester King Brewery talks about his big new project.
These eight breweries—as scenic as they are savory—are creating quite the buzz.
Texans are a thirsty bunch, and our drinks package has everything you need to imbibe like Sam Houston's watching.
A wine that showcases the terroir and climate of cool nights in the High Plains.
The deep fryer defender’s social media profile has since deleted the threatening image.
Texas is poised to become a major player in the olive industry.
Late-risers and night owls: can they interest you in an A1 Thick and Hearty Burger instead?
In drought-ravaged West Texas, cotton farmers find good omens in unlikely places.
Picking dewberries (and making cobblers, pies, jams, or jellies) is a time-honored foraging tradition.
All hail these golden spheres of goodness.
More than 1,100 calves have vanished into thin Panhandle air. Poof, gone. Looking at the numbers of this landmark cattle theft.
In a new video for PETA that spoofs his own Boyhood, Linklater explains why spending the past thirty years as a vegetarian has been such a great decision for him.
The competition at the Big Bend Livestock Show is fierce. But treat your animal right and you might get to be number four with a pullet.
Brave new hogs.
Should be a meaty ad campaign as they beef up their marketing presence for tender audiences.
Spoiler alert: It's gross.
First Bettina Siegel went after the beef industry. Now she’s tackling the Chinese government.
The Lubbock pre-teens spend six months a year showing their prize goats at livestock competitions throughout the state.
The man behind the Texas 1015.
Where tequila comes from.
It’s not all sweetness and light in the grapefruit groves of the Rio Grande Valley.
How a lowly cut of beef—breaded, spiced, and fried to order—was transformed into a vessel for the modern food system.
Corn maze + Willie's braids and guitar = pure Texas.
For the last several centuries, Texas was cattle country. Now, with worldwide demand for goat meat growing, and drought threatening to put cattle ranchers out of business, should Texas be goat country?
How rapidly increasing Chinese demand for our native nut is transforming the pecan industry.
After the deadliest industrial accident in American history, the people of Texas City were angry—at the government, not the company that caused the catastrophe
As part of "Hog Out" month in Texas, hunters in participating counties can receive two bucks for every feral hog they kill. Just make sure to save those tails!
Did a genetically modified grass kill a herd of Texas cattle, or were they just another casualty of the ongoing drought?
Many Texas farmers are on the cusp of retirement, but young people don't seem eager to replace them.
Mike Barnett, director of publications for the Texas Farm Bureau, penned a blog post celebrating Domino's decision to continue sourcing pork from farms that use controversial gestation crates.
Urban chickens are surging in popularity throughout Texas.
How have industrial chicken farms changed Texas?
Recent rains may have some fooled, but the costliest drought in the state's history still grips Texas.
Rising beef prices make cattle rustling incredibly lucrative, with animals fetching up to $1,000 per head at sale barns.
The Lower Colorado River Authority approved a new water management plan Wednesday, giving it more tools to deal with extreme drought.
First released on YouTube over the summer, a Chipotle ad featuring Willie Nelson's version of "The Scientist" was one of the better performances of the night.
And it will affect the steak-loving citizens of the state, as beef prices could jump up to ten percent this year.
With the USDA poised to once again allow the processing of horse meat, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram argues that Texas should repeal its 1949 law against the practice.
Bad as the current drought is, it has yet to match the most arid spell in Texas history. Nearly two dozen survivors of the fifties drought remember the time it never rained.
Bob Kleberg had a problem. Brahman cattle from India were tough enough to survive in the South Texas climate, but they were too tough to eat. And fat English cattle like Herefords and Shorthorns suffered the traditional fate of the English in the tropics: they degenerated into a stupor and