Opinions

As promised, we’re going to finish our visit on the topic of forestry and the timber industry as we slide into the Thanksgiving holiday week. To quote a friend of mine who works in the forestry business, the end product of the timber business should be “a straight, fat, tall tree.”

The year 2020 has been easily one of the most polarizing, contentious and crazy years in recent history and certainly so in my 27 years of life.

Last week’s Agriculture 101 column dealt with some basic forestry and timber information. This week we will visit about some of the specifics of the wood industry. Let’s start with some facts about the timber business, more especially Texas timber.

Football and basketball have become undoubtedly the two most popular sports among American sports fans, and that fact is especially true for sports fans in Texas.