Re: tractor shows in Texas

Posted by Silver Pig on February 07, 2006 at 02:55:35 from (64.154.26.251):

In Reply to: Re: tractor shows in Texas posted by b1cow on February 06, 2006 at 17:39:54:

If you drive North of Raymondville on 77, you will be driving through the Armstrong and King Ranches, if you go on to Kingsville, I understand that you can tour the headquarters of the King Ranch, then go west on 141(?) to the 281 intersection, and go back down 281 to the Valley.
Before things got so crowded, you would see lots of vegetables growing along 281 between Brownsville and Hidalgo, Krenmuller Farms, Lousiana Strawberry, Valley Onion, and Griffin and Brand. Maybe they still use Cats for heavy tillage. Out around McCook and Rincon the Bentsen Brothers, the Skloss Brothers and the Kotzurs once had lots of acreage in milo, now they have went to corn and sunflowers.
When they cleared the brush and planted milo in the early 80's, there was milo piled on the ground out the kazoo, when the subsoil moisture was depleted, it all blew away, sand drifted across the highways.
A lot of the citrus groves are gone due to "development", and since McAllen, Harlingen, and such get priority on the water, the farmer gets shafted as far as irrigation water allotments.
But, do not forget, when you are out driving, you are in a third world country, most of the drivers, even those with Texas plates, have neither license or insurance. Also, the chances of having your car stolen, broken into, or damaged whhile parked is exceedingly high.
At one time, and probably still, Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron counties had/have the lowest per capita income in the United States, as well as the highest unemployment numbers.

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