The new year may mark the last time Texas farmer LG Raun plants a rice crop.
“I guess I’m going to be the one that’s going to screw up the tradition of growing Raun family rice,” said the third-generation producer, whose family has been in the business for more than a century. “I’m not going to keep doing it and lose everything that I have, so if there’s not a big turnaround, ’26 is my last year farming.”
LG Raun next to silos at Rice Belt Warehouse in El Campo, Texas.
Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg
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