by Doug Mayo | Sep 30, 2022
This week’s featured video was produced by the University of Texas at Tyler’s South West Ag Center to address a serious issue, the mental health of farmers. In this video, Grant Heinrich, a Lubbock farmer and crop duster, shares his experience with mental...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 23, 2022
This week’s featured video is a single selection from the large video collection of Jeff Pybus, “The Rat Buster.” Pybus has become a YouTube sensation with millions of video views and 110k subscribers who love to watch him shoot rats. Pybus uses a...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 16, 2022
Rainfall August 2022 was another hot and steamy month for the Panhandle that brought variable rainfall to the region. The western counties received over 9.5″ (purple, mauve, & magenta), as seen in the map above to the left. Areas in blue received...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 16, 2022
This week’s featured video was published by a PBS Show called Reconnecting Roots that features host Gabe McCauley. McAuley and his team produced an episode of Reconnecting Roots focused on agriculture. In the video I chose to share this week, McAuley asked a...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 9, 2022
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) have successfully grown plants in lunar soil extracted from three NASA missions to the Moon. Rob Feral and Anna Lisa Paul, UF/IFAS Horticulture Department, were the first scientist to show that plants can be grown in...
