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Dare to Be Grape
In the late sixties, Texas Tech chemistry professor Clinton “Doc” McPherson and horticulture professor Bob Reed planted a few wine grapes outside Lubbock. The deep sandy loam had long been home to...
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When Will We Be Eating Meat Grown In Labs? SXSW Eco Sheds Light On The Future...
The reputation of SXSW as a parade of hipsters, marketers, bands, and techies that descends upon Austin with free swag every March is partly true, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. So the fact that...
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Is The Bureau Of Land Management Attempting A Land Grab On The Red River?
Land disputes between private citizens and the federal government—represented by the Bureau of Land Management—have been a hot topic since the standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada last year. With...
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Cat Spring Yaupon Tea
During the drought of 2011, sisters Abianne Falla and JennaDee Detro watched as one-hundred-year-old oak trees died on their family’s ranch, in Cat Spring. On neighboring ranches, entire herds of...
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Great Planes
On a January day in 1958, a group of local businessmen gathered at an airfield on the outskirts of Olney to get a firsthand look at a piece of machinery they’d hoped would be the town’s economic...
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Cultivating the Future Grape Growers of Texas
By the numbers, more Texans may live in urban areas than rural ones, but we remain one of the largest farming and ranching states in the country. One agricultural industry that’s seeing big growth here...
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Cattle Call
Victoria Livestock Show, Victoria In Texas the beginning of the year means one thing: it’s showtime. For the countless exhibitors loading up their trailers and heading to stock shows across the state,...
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Legal Beef
Early in my phone conversation with Bill Koch about a court battle he’s been waging over a beef deal gone bad, he made a comment that he often makes when discussing his many legal dustups. “I have a...
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The Future of Farming
When Timothy Gertson finally finished downloading nearly eighty pages of forms from the Texas Department of Agriculture, filling them out the old-fashioned way—by hand—and submitting them, he was one...
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Buying the Farm
In the early 1850s a small contingent of German immigrants journeyed into the heart of the Texas Hill Country, claiming a piece of land a few miles southwest of the recently settled community of...
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Meet the Beetle
One month into the invasion of Texas, Allen Smith was driving to the site he calls Ground Zero, six miles west of the Louisiana line. “Excuse the mess,” he said. “I’ve been living out of this truck...
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When the Dust Settles
The curtain of dust that swept over the Panhandle on October 17, 2011, descended from the northwest. It was a chinook wind, a cold front that slid off the eastern slope of the Rockies, pulling milky...
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The List: The Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas
Texas barbecue has no peer on earth.” That’s what I immodestly declared in 2013, when we published our fourth list of the fifty best barbecue joints in the state. We were right, of course, but I did...
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The Day The Fire Came
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This Seventeen-Year-Old Rescued Cattle by Helicopter During Harvey
When Texans fled the Hurricane Harvey, many brought their beloved animals with them. They pushed their dogs in coolers through waist-deep water. They brought rabbits in cages onto rescue boats. They...
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Record-Setting Longhorn, Cowboy Tuff Chex, Sells for Six Figures at Fort...
Chex sells. By Chex, we mean Cowboy Tuff Chex, a Guinness World Record-holding longhorn that was bought for $165,000 at an auction at the Fort Worth Stockyards on Friday night. According to the Fort...
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Guacamole, tortilla soup, seafood campechanas —Texans are long spoiled by easy access to cheap and delicious Hass avocados. But the days of carefree, creamy green dip may be numbered. This week, prices...
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The Fences Between Us
Behold the humble barbed-wire fence, the five-strand sentinel of Texas woods and plains. Untold thousands of miles of barbed-wire fence divide the state, so ubiquitous outside the city centers that...
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Struggling Texas Farmers Thought Hemp Might Save Them. The Crop Hasn’t Yet...
Before the first seed was tucked into Texas soil, farmers and investors eager for a different kind of green revolution flocked to Dallas in January for the Texas Hemp Convention. It was the state’s...
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The Quest for Better Beef
When some 8,500 ranchers, stockers, feeders, and meat-packers began arriving at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, in San Antonio, for the annual National Cattlemen’s Beef Association conference...
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New to Backyard Chicken-Keeping? Here’s Some Eggspert Advice
Tuesdays and Thursdays are baby chick days at Callahan’s General Store in East Austin. At 9 a.m., employees unload stacks of cardboard boxes filled with tiny peeping birds. By noon, when the chicks go...
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After Widespread Rodeo Cancellations, an Online Community Has Emerged to Help...
Earlier this month, Lauren Cooper and her heifer, Bonnie, were in line to move into their stall at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo when news of the event’s cancellation swiftly made its way...
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The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition
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Texas Hemp Business Celebrates Itself Amid Setbacks
You might not think singer Ky-Mani Marley—son of the reggae legend Bob Marley, who was as famous for his pot smoking and social justice promoting—would have much in common with Texas agriculture...
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It’s Time to Take Texas Cheese Seriously
Peering into the cheese case at Scardello in Dallas’s Oak Lawn neighborhood, it’s hard to know where to begin. There’s everything from goat to gouda, cave-aged cheddar to creamy Brie, stinky blue to...
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