Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Virgil Vaughn's family and neighbors still halfway expect him to step out into his pecan orchard. This autumn marks the third ...

Belding Farms General Manager Zachary Swick poses for a portrait at the farm on Sept. 23, 2024, in Fort Stockton. The farms dispute over exporting water comes as the states population booms and water ...

After an overnight torrent soaked the sandy soil and winds whipped across his orchard, Willis Hartley knew he was seeing something truly terrible only at daybreak. That's because he saw light. On any ...

Hurricane season coincides with pecan season. Severe weather is seldom kind to agriculture. A hard freeze too late in March or April shrinks a peach crop, while excessive temperatures and moisture ...

Most of the ranches that we cover here at Chron—and there are so, so many of them—have been used to raise cattle, or horses, or maybe most often, the next generation of hunters. But the 2,650 acres ...