Texas Country Reporter
July 25, 2022
He’s Fourteen Years Old. He Also Runs a 25-Acre Farm.
Beau Burns doesn’t need limits on screen time, because his favorite place to be is out working in the field.
Farmers
Texas Country Reporter
July 14, 2022
The “Garlicmeister” of Central Texas
Bob Anderson says the self-inflicted title is for amusement only, but the quirky farmer sure seems serious about garlic.
Business
June 16, 2022
Meet the Yucca Whisperer of West Texas
Near Fort Stockton, Hoven Riley has been quietly growing more than 20,000 of the prized plants, which are being illicitly uprooted from public and private lands to meet a growing demand.
Sponsored
April 12, 2022
Ranching With an Eye Towards Tomorrow
McDonald’s, Chipotle, and countless other restaurants around the world.
Texas Country Reporter
March 31, 2022
The Story of Buckshot Fuqua: King of Hot Carrots
On a farm in Grimes County, one man unexpectedly stumbled upon his life’s passion—double-aught, two-fisted, skull-and-crossbones, hot pickled carrots.
The Texanist
March 16, 2022
The Texanist: What’s the Difference Between a Ranch and a Farm?
A New Braunfels man isn’t quite sure that he has a firm grasp on this fundamental aspect of Texas rural life.
Business
February 23, 2022
The Texas Wine Industry Is Just Getting Started. Grape Farmers Say the End Is Near.
A toxic herbicide used in cotton fields is devastating vineyards on the High Plains, endangering the state’s $13 billion wine business. Grape farmers have banded together to fight back.
Food & Drink
December 14, 2021
The One and Only Moringa Stand in Texas Fulfills a Lifelong Promise
After losing her daughter and a close friend, Sunny Huang brought the benefits of this "miracle tree" to Texas.
Business
November 12, 2021
It’s Time to Take Texas Cheese Seriously
There’s more to Texas cheese than queso. The unique terroir of the Lone Star State makes locally made cheese special—and major national manufacturers are taking notice.
News & Politics
August 10, 2020
Struggling Texas Farmers Thought Hemp Might Save Them. The Crop Hasn’t Yet Delivered.
A year after the Legislature legalized farming the cannabis variant, big dreams for the new crop are withering.
Energy
January 21, 2013
Gulf Coast Portion of Keystone Pipeline Approved
TransCanada announced that construction of the Texas-Oklahoma segment of its pipeline will begin shortly—immediately prompting a backlash from environmentalists and conservative landowners alike.
January 21, 2013
Texas Farmers are Nation’s Second-Most Aged
Many Texas farmers are on the cusp of retirement, but young people don't seem eager to replace them.
Books
January 20, 2013
The Uncertain Sage
A cool, brilliantly blue day in early February found me driving north from Austin on a sort of pilgrimage. I was going to see John Graves, the writer and gentleman farmer, now 73 years old, at his place on four hundred acres of rocky blackland prairie near Glen Rose.My visit
News & Politics
April 30, 1997
The War for the Colorado
Battles over the river’s precious waters are pulling in everyone from pecan growers in Central Texas to shrimpers in Matagorda Bay, not to mention thirsty cities like San Antonio and Corpus Christi. Who will be left high and dry?
News & Politics
January 1, 1996
Water Grab
Why farmers and big-city folk are at war over water. Plus: Jane Nelson for comptroller?
Music
March 1, 1995
Come Dancing
When country hunk Billy Ray Cyrus his megahit “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992, country dancing—or at least a modern version of it—returned to vogue. Cyrus’ novelty song was released with a video that showed a line dance specifically created for the song, and—in a flashback to the Urban Cowboy craze of
Food & Drink
May 1, 1986
Summer’s First Stand
Yesterday those onions and carrots were in the ground. Today they’re on your table, thanks to Texas’ bountiful roadside fruit and vegetable stands.
News & Politics
August 31, 1985
Back Roads
Skinner Brown, a 63-year-old farmer and business man, was a pillar of his small-town society until he was busted for possessing $12 million worth of marijuana.
Being Texan
April 1, 1983
Texas Primer: The Farm-to-Market Road
The last best way to see the real Texas.
Being Texan
February 1, 1982
Way Out West in the Land of Cotton
People still think of cotton as a Dixieland crop, but the heart of the nation’s production is on the dry, flat, and windswept High Plains of Texas.
Texas History
August 31, 1978
The Sons of the Pioneers
Miles from their nearest neighbors, beset by drought, debt, insects, and government, Panhandle farmers gamble everything to keep alive a tradition they can’t abandon.
Food & Drink
August 1, 1978
A Peach of a Deal
Texas is cattle, oil, Stetsons, peaches, branding irons . . . peaches?
Country Notes
July 31, 1978
The Loser
When another farmer goes broke his neighbors thank God it wasn’t them; then they wonder when their turn is coming.
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’