NEWS

Hurricane Florence, heralded by weather experts as the worst storm to hit the Carolinas in 30 years, approached the East Coast as a Category 4 storm and downgraded to a Category 1 storm when it made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on Friday morning, with winds at 90 to 75 miles per hour.

Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, early Friday morning as a Category 1 storm with winds at 75 miles per hour.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Galveston, Texas, issued a temporary injunction last week, preventing the 2015 WOTUS rule from being applied in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, at least until the current litigation efforts have been resolved.

Most Progressive Cattleman readers talk to their extension agent as least occasionally, according to a recent poll.

Rain is usually a welcome sight. However, wet summers can make for bad winters. Of all the articles and issues that I’ve had the opportunity to write about in the past two years with Progressive Cattleman, this topic is the most important for an operation’s success.