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Previous reporting by the Star-Telegram shows the silos and grain elevator date to 1924, when Fort Worth was considered the grain capital of the Southwest, according to an archivist at the Fort ...
The Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve (FOR) was a program, established under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, designed to buffer sharp price movements and to provide reserves against production shortfalls by allowing wheat and feed grain farmers to participate in a subsidized grain storage program. Farmers who placed their grain in storage ...
A Uniform Grain and Rice Storage Agreement (UGRSA) is the contractual arrangement governing transactions between the Agricultural Marketing Service and private grain storage companies. Commercial warehouses storing grain under a nonrecourse loan or owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) must have a signed Uniform Grain and Rice Storage ...
American farmers are hoping that aid to agriculture will be revived as Congress struggles to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the federal government funded and avert a looming ...
Grain elevator and storage facility in Enid, Oklahoma. "Queen Wheat City" is the nickname given to Enid, Oklahoma. It is also known as the "Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma and the United States for its immense grain storage capacity, and has the third-largest grain storage capacity in the world. [27]
We dug deep into our archive to find photos from nearly every decade of Boy Scouting around Fort Worth, including camps at Worth Ranch. Take a hike down memory lane!
The Fort Worth Fire Department said they arrived to find trash and waste inside the silo on fire. The were able to extinguish it quickly, but aren’t yet sure how the flames got started.
At 13, [Estes] received a lamb as a gift, sold its wool for $5, bought another lamb and went into business. At 15, he sold 100 sheep for $3,000. He borrowed $3,500 more from a bank, bought government surplus grain and sold it for a big profit. By 18, he had $38,000. [1] He served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II. [1]