Xeriscape becomes viable option for yards as Central Texas drought continues. Cutting yard maintenance up to 50% this method helps to save money, time and water.
Devastation to the ash tree population caused by the beetles could have an economic impact of billions of dollars, alter forest structure and negatively affect animal communities.
The record heat and drought in Texas has been hurting Panhandle farmers. One local group is working on new ways to solve issues surrounding this recurring problem.
Looking forward with anticipation, or perhaps dread, at winter feeding and stocking rates, it is important that we that one strongly evaluates the anticipated hay needs and purchases.
Don’t water enough and you’ll end up with a thinning or dying lawn. Yet, water too much, or at the wrong time of day, and you will be full of fungal diseases that can also kill your lawn.
According to Gregg County Texas A & M Agri-Life Agent Shanequa Davis, we are already in an early drought, and tending the plants requires several important steps.
Last month at an Angelina County Extension seminar, our local vet Dr. Bradley Clary spoke about the common thieves of cattle growth, flies, and internal parasites. It was an excellent talk about the losses each could incur on the herd and the steps necessary to put them at bay.
Learn the active ingredient in pesticides often products may not have the familiar brand name yet when used at the same rate will yield the same results.
Beginning in mid-April, galls or knots appear on the leaf veins, leaf stems, the current season’s shoot growth, and nuts of affected pecan trees caused by the feeding of small aphid-like pecan phylloxera.
The tour starts at 9 am and is expected to be complete well before noon. This is a free event. Those interested in joining the tour and discussion should enter 16071 Hwy 94, Apple Springs into the map app on your phone. If you are heading away from Lufkin, the entrance will be on your right.
“We have already been collecting willow. We’ve collected probably almost 7000 linear feet, we should have, hoping we should have way more than we need for the house,” said Souther.
A professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler talked to KLTV’s Lexi Vennetti about the technology they used to create what are essentially fitness trackers for plants.
With a sprawling event on the National Mall titled “Growing a Climate for Tomorrow”, producers, agriculture corporations, and others showcased equipment and interactive displays for National Agriculture Day.
Reach for the Stars “Celebrating the Possibilities” at the Angelina County Fair is a livestock show on Thursday, March 24 at 5 p.m. that will showcase the talents of special needs youth from across our county. Participants will be paired up with a 4-H or FFA buddy to exhibit livestock
Agricultural producers and home gardeners have been facing issues due to supply chain problems. Producers need to take a hard look at this year’s fertilizer costs as prices are currently high are expected to get much higher.
Lufkin is now in Zone 8b with an average minimum temperature ranging from 15 to 20 F. Just a few miles north, Nacogdoches is in zone 8a (10 to 15 F), and further to our north, Tyler marks the transition into zone 7b (5 to 10 F).
Dirt is the stuff under your fingernails and that which you sweep up after cleaning your floors. But soil is a rich, diverse, and living medium from which vegetation grows profusely and produces is abundantly.
East Texas farmers, who suffered losses during the tumultuous weather year of 2021, have a chance to recover some of their losses through a government loan program.
Cole/cruciferous/mustard family vegetables include cool-season crops such as Brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, broccoli, turnips, and watercress.
First frosts are a major marker for agricultural producers, gardeners, and landscapers. A frost effectively ends the growing season for several warm-season annuals and puts many perennials into their winter slumber.
