From the Porch

Tom Paben


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Generations of farming experience you can learn so much about!  Click through to your areas of interest to educate yourself and stay healthier with fresh, local foods.  

0:00- 0:21 Intro
0:22- 3:40 German ancestry 
3:41- 8:13 Peanut farming with Brejcha , Davis 
8:14- 9:02 Corn crops
9:03- 13:00 cattle breed preferences, feeding, pricing, screwworm, foot and mouth disease 
13:01- 16:12 Entry into farming issues, equipment, hay, urban sprawl, tax breaks, leases, fences and capital improvements, water issues, infrastructure
16:13-21:09 Texas Farm Bureau, “Right To Farm”, lobbyists, grass roots issues go to state level, education, insurance for members
21:10-24:36 flooding issues, Retention ponds, designated agriculatural areas for grazing, farmland to taxable assets?   Ag has value!  Best use!
24:37- 28:05 Trucking in vegetables, getting it to market struggles, find co-ops
28:06-29:54 Educate yourself.  Join Farm Bureau. Know your Farmer!  Promote agriculture!

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