The title of this column is a double entendre. That’s called a double meaning in most circles. But it’s one of the few things I remember from English classes at that cowboy college where I went to school. At least I spelled entendre correctly. One of the title’s two meanings is that quail season — a Shotgun Event — ended […]

On Feb. 25, a Polish Agribusiness Delegation from Poland visited Panna Maria and the burial site of Fr. Leopold Moczygemba, the priest who invited settlers from Silesia, a region in Europe now a part of Poland, to settle in South Texas in the 1850s. The visitors are part of an agribusiness study tour of Texas with Dr. Jim Mazurkiewicz of […]

Congratulations to the Poth FFA shooting sports members, who participated Feb. 14-18 in the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo’s competitive event — and came home with $23,000 in scholarships! With more than a dozen shooters at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo competitive event this last weekend, seven Poth FFA shooters qualified for the finals. Ty Schuenemann earned […]

Q. Our peach tree is already blooming. What happens if we skip the pruning this year? A. You did not mention how old the tree is or its variety. A lot of the early blooming selections get pruned after they start blooming. It is best if you can prune it even if it is blooming. At least make some pruning […]