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    East Texas

    For some reason I come up empty handed when I google this. What is the soil ph? In the Tyler area or Nacogdoches/Lufkin. I understand it isn't consistent and can be different on the same property, but there should be a way to get a general idea of the ranges normally found. Also, what are the...
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    Pigs?

    With the higher prices for pork these days, has anyone thought about raising some pigs? Are they hard to get to market? We have regular auctions here for cattle, sheep, and goats, but I've never seen one for pigs. Just wondering if it is a decent idea or harder than it seems.
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    10 acres enough

    It's a book about state of the art farming methods by Edmund Morris. Has anyone read it? I thought it was an excellent read and really enlightening about so many things. The last third or so was a bit technical. Written in 1864.
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    Trees vs undergrowth.

    First, I ain't got the land, cows, or water. So we're just barnstormin' here a little bit. If I had, say, 300 acres in central Texas, and I fenced off about 40, and planted about 200 pecan trees on a 100' spacing(very wide), and planted, oh, cowpeas in the summer, some kind of winter legume...
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    Grasshoppers

    We have tons of grasshoppers here in the summer. Do they eat the grass or just weeds and trees? I'm wondering if they damage the pasture.
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    Grass i.d.

    We have this grass all over. The black angus cows don't seem to ever touch it. We have a small bit of Bermuda and they hover over that stuff. They eat the blue gramma. I've been trying to figure out what it is and think it is little bluestem. It's in central Texas. Mills county. All native...
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