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The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]
Texas is the westernmost limit of commercial okra production. [18]: 5 Pests include the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta (Buren)), the southern green stink bug (Nezara viridula ), and leaffooted bugs (various Leptoglossus spp.). [18]: 5 Texas is one of the largest producers of onions.
Houston black soil extends over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of the Texas blackland prairies and is the Texas state soil. The series is composed of expansive clays and is considered one of the classic vertisols. [1] Houston black soils are used extensively for grain sorghum, cotton, corn, small grain, and forage grasses.
A minority of farmers in the Texas High Plains region are looking to organic and regenerative techniques to keep their soil healthy year round, despite a dry climate.
Ultisol, commonly known as red clay soil, is one of twelve soil orders in the United States Department of Agriculture soil taxonomy. The word "Ultisol" is derived from "ultimate", because Ultisols were seen as the ultimate product of continuous weathering of minerals in a humid, temperate climate without new soil formation via glaciation .
The short, stout oaks that grow in the Cross Timbers were not usable as timber, and those that were not cleared for farmland constitute one of the least disturbed forest types in the eastern United States, with some 890,000 acres (3,600 km 2) of old-growth forest scattered throughout the region. [5]
The Lone Star State is home to over 200 ant species, but the one that truly packs a punch is the red imported fire ant, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. These ants produce a ...
In 2023, Texas lawmakers attempted to address the growing problem by passing House Bill 4256, which created the Leaking Water Wells Grant Program under the Texas Commission on Environmental ...