Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Farm to Market Roads in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). FM roads are a network of state-maintained roads that provide access to rural and agricultural areas. They are an integral part of the state's infrastructure, connecting small towns and farming communities to larger highways, facilitating ...
Texas Farm Bureau produces two member publications: Texas Agriculture for agricultural producers and Texas Neighbors for non-producing members. [9] News services also include a television program, “Voices of Agriculture,” on RFD-TV, and the “Texas Farm Bureau Radio Network,” which has more than 60 affiliate radio stations across Texas. [10]
XIT Ranch. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km). The massive ranch stretched through ten counties in Texas and at its peak ...
April 19, 1944 [ 205] –present. Farm to Market Road 99 ( FM 99) is located in Karnes, Atascosa, Live Oak, and McMullen counties. It runs from FM 1144 in Karnes City to a road intersection 4 miles (6.4 km) south of SH 72. FM 99 was designated on April 19, 1944, from Karnes City to the Karnes–Atascosa county line.
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946.
Atwoods. Atwoods Ranch & Home is a farm and ranch supply store chain based in Enid, Oklahoma, United States. Atwoods has 75 stores in five states: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. [1] Most of its stores are located in Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas. [2] In addition to farm and ranch supplies, Atwoods stores sell clothing, lawn and ...
Texas Slave Ranch. The Texas Slave Ranch is the name popularly given to a ranch near Mountain Home, Texas where workers who had been abducted were forced to work without pay making cedar keychains that sold throughout the Texas Hill Country. The ranch was raided in 1984 and the operation shut down.
Farm Credit Bank of Texas is the product of the 1988 merger of the Federal Land Bank of Texas and Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Texas. These banks were known as the Federal Land Bank of Houston and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston prior to changing their names in 1979, and were located in Houston from their respective founding dates of 1916 and 1923 until they relocated to ...