Ted Cruz to Hold ‘Agriculture Round Table' After Breitbart Farming Coverage

Cotton has a $4 billion annual economic impact within a 100-mile radius of Lubbock. Breitbart Texas previously reported the region could lose 25 percent of its cotton producers if late fall harvest prices are in the range of 65 cents per pound. Calls for a Farm Bill re-write in 2017 are reaching fever pitch in major agriculture sectors across rural America. Presently federal spending on farm policy is less than half of 1 percent. Many see Cruz, who will reportedly run for re-election in 2018, as a crucial player behind the scenes for Texas agriculture, which exceeds $100 billion economic impact annually, while rural lands comprise over 80 percent of the state’s geography, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture.more