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Map of Texas highlighting the Winter Garden Region. The Winter Garden Region is an agricultural area in South Texas located north of Laredo and southwest of San Antonio.The region is centered on four "core" counties - Dimmit, Frio, La Salle, and Zavala, [1] but also includes parts of Atascosa, Maverick, and McMullen counties.
Grapes are a common crop in some parts of Texas. [10] [11] Pierce's Disease is a common problem in the East and South. [10] From 1970 to 1996, PD was unknown outside of the southern part of the state. Though thought to be impossible, in 1996 suddenly many vineyards were heavily hit in north central Texas and some were wiped out completely.
Rice production in Texas began in 1853 in southeast Texas. By 1903, the acres of cultivated rice in Texas was second only to Louisiana and together accounted for 99 percent of rice production in United States. While other states have surpassed Texas in rice production, it remains a significant Texas crop into the foreseeable future.
One year after a devastating drought, Texas agriculture watchers are wary that the positive effects of a wet spring could be zapped up with extreme heat. As Texas swelters, crops and cattle are ...
The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...
John Nielsen-Gammon, Ph.D., Texas state climatologist and Regents Professor in the Texas A&M Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Bryan-College Station, said the heat wave produced eight "all-time ...
Both the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease and Control have categorized Texas as West South Central and South. ... U.S. Department of Agriculture: The Great Plains. Parts of Texas may fit ...
"The Poetics of American Agriculture: The United States Rice Industry in International Perspective." Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific (Routledge, 2017) pp. 345–368. Miller, Bonnie M. "Race and Region: Tracing the Cultural Pathways of Rice Consumption in the United States, 1680-1960." Global Food History 5.3 (2019): 183–203.