Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Texas rice farms

  • LISSIE, Texas (AP) — Five generations of Ronald Gertsons family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Rains in Texas have failed to refill water reservoirs for the state's main rice-growing areas, prompting the first-ever restrictions on irrigation that may lead to the smallest planted acreage since the 1920s.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Rains in Texas have failed to refill water reservoirs for the state's main rice-growing areas, prompting the first-ever restrictions on irrigation that may lead to the smallest planted acreage since the 1920s.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • Rice grew up in Austin and Dallas, Texas, the son of a single mother who worked as An independent third party conducts the farm visits while Fair Trade USA does a supply-chain audit.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • (In addition to the crawfish crop, the farm produces 8,000,000 pounds of rice annually.) When the rice crop grows tall the number of pounds that had to be on the truck bound for Texas in a couple of hours.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Stagg found a more congenial setting on his familys former rice farm, where he constructed a backwoods compound Smaller works are on view at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.
  • (Danbury News-Times)
  • Most rice produced in the U.S.
  • (Businessweek)
  • "Without direct payments, the rice producer has no safety net," Gerard said. But on a panel of lobbyists on Feb.
  • (AG Week)
  • ACRE is administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA "triggered" ACRE payments for both long grain rice and medium grain rice. Mississippi, Missouri and Texas "triggered" for long grain rice.
  • (News Room America)
  • when the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Plano-based Denbury Resources was a private carrier that wanted to build a CO2 pipeline for its own use, and couldnt use eminent domain to get an easement on a Houston-area rice farm.
  • (KENS 5)

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