Cary Sims

Two really simple winter cover crops that I’ll push are rye grain and Crimson clover. These can be used alone or together to get the best out of each.

Recognize that starting an agricultural business endeavor just to save on some taxes is unwise at best. The amount of effort, overhead costs, and risk involved in raising crops or livestock takes a tremendous understanding of environmental challenges, markets, and incredible personal skill.

I believe one overlooked fruit that we can grow here is strawberries. Growing them need not be difficult and you can raise better fruit in your back yard then with proper care and attention.

This past week was glorious. I loved the cool days and rain. It’s fall.

This is the time of year that I get a variety of questions about lawns, and the clock is running out.

Great products won’t do what they are meant to if we don’t read and follow the label.

Bamboos are botanical “grasses” that are perennial. We know them as one of the most difficult to control ornamental plants.

Ponds can be a complex ecosystem. Certainly its an system that we can’t figure out (many times) by simply looking at the surface of water.

San Augustine was called the “drama queen” of turfgrasses.

Over a period of several weeks to a few months, soil temperatures become high enough to kill many of the damaging soil pests and weed seed to a depth of nearly 8 inches.

There are a number of insects that can wreak havoc on turfgrass and cause it to be unsightly.

The soak and cycle method breaks up your typical sprinkler cycle into at least 2 different, concurrent sessions to fully allow water to reach deep into the soil.

This past week, I spent an afternoon with my son playing golf. Please understand that while we were playing golf, I am not a golfer. We played from 2 pm to 6 pm, and the hot sun and humidity were brutal.

To control mosquitoes effectively around the home, it helps to know about their lifecycle.

A look at the common diseases that affect tomatoes.

I’ve said many times here and to folks across the county that I get more questions specifically about pond management than any other topic. Indeed, a staple of east Texas land owners is the farm pond.

On May 19, 2020, USDA released details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).

Some locations in East Texas, millipedes have had just the right conditions for their numbers to explode.

According to all scientific observations, we certainly don’t have any murderous hornets in East Texas, but we do have an unusually large wasp called a Cicada killer.

Native subterranean termites have already swarmed down South where the weather has already warmed up and now is reported to be swarming in Central and North Texas.

Family gardening yields more benefits than produce.

Timing advice for watering, fertilizing, and weeding for your yard.

Direction on how to help the students who have spent time and money preparing for the now-canceled Angelina County Fair.

Caley has been a member of the Huntington All-Around 4-H for eight years and will show a Charolais cross steer, named Buddy.

Jordan Rhodes with her lamb “Baily” that will show at the Angelina County Fair on Thursday, March 26 at the George H. Henderson Expo in Lufkin.

Lauren Boulware is a 15-year-old sophomore at Central High School where she is active in the FFA program and is getting ready to show her first meat goat project at the Angelina County Fair.

Morgan Chaviers is 10 years old and a 4th grader at Central Elementary and is raising broilers for her second year as she competes in the Angelina County Fair.

Often is heard, “That green and grey fungus is killing my tree! See there? It’s all over those limbs!”

Recent inquiries at the Extension office have been about pruning trees and shrubs. Indeed, this is a great time to do most of your annual pruning. Trees and shrubs are in their dormant stage and can take it quite well.

Perhaps nothing is more therapeutic than digging in wonderful, dark, rich soil. Your shovel cuts easily down thru the soft, crumbly soil and is wonderful.