Texas rice farming towns struggle without water

Associated Press • Rice farmer and crop insurance broker Tom Kelley stands outside his Eagle Lake, Texas, office and talks about the economics of being a farmer. Texas rice farmers probably won’t get irrigation water to flood their fields for a second consecutive year after officials ove...

EAGLE LAKE, Texas—Tom Kallina has no fields to till, plant or flood. But his business depends on Texas’ rice industry and the likelihood that farmers won’t get irrigation water for a second consecutive year threatens to destroy it, along with hundreds of others in his area.

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Published: 01/16/2013