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The steady increase in the age of farmers is not unique to Texas, and is part of a national trend — the 2017 agriculture census found the average age of all U.S. farm producers rose 1.2 years ...
Five farmers who live in Johnson County are in a legal battle with the EPA and the fertilizer manufacturer Synagro Technologies Inc. and its Texas subsidiary, saying the fertilizer contains ...
Wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle have destroyed grain in storage bins and likely killed tens of thousands of livestock, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in an interview on ...
Texas has the most farms of all United States both in terms of number and size. Agriculture is a major contributor to the economy of Texas and is the primary land use in the state. It is the country's leading producer of livestock. Wine production in Texas is significant, although small by global standards.
The first large acreage cultivation of rice in Texas was in 1853 by William Goyens. David French was growing in such quantity by 1863 that he is considered to be the first to operate a major rice farm in Beaumont, Texas. By the 1880s, commercial rice production spread from southwest Louisiana and into southeast Texas.
The Texas Farm Bureau was established in 1933. [6] During the Great Depression, Texas Farm Bureau was reorganized as the “Texas Agricultural Association” on March 6, 1934, in Dallas. In 1938, Texas Agricultural Association members voted to move the headquarters 90 miles (140 km) south to Waco. The organization operated for seven years under ...
"We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it’s 700 years before we run out of land," Miller said. The limiting factor is water. We’re out of water, especially in the Rio Grande Valley."
Yuleida fits into an even smaller demographic — the last farm census shows there are just over 9,000 hispanic, female primary producers in Texas, and only 290 women farming in Floyd County ...