*Preserving the Livestock Risk Protection program is a top priority for cattle feeders.  *There are fewer hogs and pigs in Texas right now.  *A poultry facility in the Texas Panhandle has contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  *The Texas wheat crop is now in the home stretch.  *Texas cotton farmers are looking forward to another growing season.  *The United States is losing farmers and farmland.  *Planters are beginning to roll in North Central Texas.  *It’s lambing time for many sheep herds.