May 2025

Brown County 4-H news and updates

May
 26 – Extension Office Closed for Memorial Day    
28- Deadline to sign up for BCR Calf Scramble      Brown County Rodeo Calf Scramble 
The Brown County Rodeo is hosting it's annual calf scramble June 5th - 7th, 7pm at the Brown County Fairgrounds. They are looking for youth participants! 

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The Benefits of Texas Beef

Texas is the top beef-producing state in the nation, and raising cattle is the largest part of Texas agriculture. The ways ranchers raise cattle in the Lone Star State are as diverse as Texas itself. Grass-fed, grain-fed, cow-calf, stocker, purebred operations—all play a unique role in providing a safe, nutritious product for niche and mainstream consumer markets.

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Mediterranean eating on a budget

The Mediterranean eating pattern is followed by the 22 counties surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. It has been increasingly heralded as one of the healthiest diets world- wide, and in 2015 it was finally recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published jointly by the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, after thorough review of the decades of research by leading nutrition scientists.

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