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Candidate for TX Agriculture Commissioner. Sec of Texas Farmers Union.
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From the Oilfield to the Farm? Texas Better Get This Right. (opens the original)
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Last week, I wrote about Texas regulators moving forward with rules that could allow treated oil and gas wastewater to be applied to agricultural land. There is another side of this conversation that deserves just as much attention.We keep hearing about “produced water,” which sounds harmless enough. In plain English, it is wastewater brought to the surface during oil and gas production. In fracking operations, companies pump water, sand, and chemicals underground at high pressure to fracture ro
Texas Needs Water. Farmers Need Answers. (opens the original)
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Texas has a water problem. Farmers and ranchers already know it. Our aquifers are dropping, drought keeps putting pressure on rural communities, and agriculture uses roughly 2.9 trillion gallons of irrigation water every year.At the same time, Texas oil and gas operations generate hundreds of billions of gallons of produced water every year. This is the wastewater that comes back up during oil and gas production, and companies have to figure out what to do with it. With Texas looking for new sou
Rural Texas Deserves Real Broadband (opens the original)
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I live in a rural county, so I know what happens when the internet goes down. Businesses have trouble processing payments. Phones stop working. People suddenly lose access to services that most of the country now takes for granted. Out here, reliable broadband is part of the basic infrastructure that keeps a community running.One woman once told me about a day when all of the connectivity around her went down. She was at work when she got a bad feeling about her husband and decided to drive home
The Greedy Four Are Hollowing Out America's Beef Industry (opens the original)
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Tyson Foods is closing beef facilities in Illinois and Utah and trying to sell another in Washington. Earlier this year, the company closed its Lexington, Nebraska, plant and cut roughly 1,700 jobs in Amarillo. Now Tyson says it may restore a second shift in Amarillo when more cattle become available.I hope every one of those Amarillo jobs comes back. I stood with laid-off workers there in January, and I saw what these cuts mean for working families. But a possible promise for Amarillo does not
Who Owns the Future of American Farming? (opens the original)
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying Palantir $300 million to consolidate enormous amounts of agricultural information into a single interconnected system. The stated goal sounds reasonable enough: take fragmented farmer records, streamline federal programs, combat fraud, strengthen food security, and better protect American agriculture from supply chain disruptions and foreign influence.But $300 million is a lot of taxpayer money, and this isn’t just another government software contract
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