Local cotton producers face difficult questions
Whether it is better to strip the field and start over or harvest a low-yielding crop, that is the financial question facing cotton farmers at the end of what is predicted to be a dismal season.
Whether it is better to strip the field and start over or harvest a low-yielding crop, that is the financial question facing cotton farmers at the end of what is predicted to be a dismal season.
Improving eating patterns and helping prevent chronic disease is the focus of a new Texas A&M AgriLife Research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, NIFA.
Don’t expect a big cotton crop this year. Between the drought and the rain that either came too soon or too late, cotton farmers are faced with a failed harvest or a low one.
After blowing out the Wellman-Union Wildcats, 60-14, in a game stopped in the third quarter on the 45-point mercy rule last Friday night at O’Donnell, the O’Donnell Eagles now know that they’re heading back to the state six-man football playoffs.
After seeing their string of 14 straight district championships and playoff seasons come to an end last season, the Borden County Coyotes took a big step toward starting a new streak last week at longtime nemesis Rankin.
Lamesa’s eighth grade football team applied the finishing touch to a perfect season here last Thursday evening by rolling past the Denver City Mustangs, 28-12.
The 2023 Sands Mustangs shouldn’t have much trouble putting a highlight film tape together from this season.
Call it a ‘wake-up call’ or what, but the Klondike Cougar volleyballers saw their eight-match win streak snapped going into the first round of the playoffs this week. This past Saturday they dropped a tough five-set loss to one of the best schools at their classification.
Last Friday night’s high school football regular season finale here in town started out with a special ceremony recognizing the Victory Bell, which is now rung in the memory of late Golden Tornado great J.J. Koehler. He was tragically taken away from this world in a tragic automobile accident going on some 19 years ago.
To the woman who knocked on my apartment door a few weeks ago: Don’t come back.
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