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The State Fair of Texas starts Sept. 29, kicking off 24 days of fair fun. Established in 1886 , the State Fair of Texas continues to promote Texas agriculture, education and community involvement ...
A person reading a book at the 2012 Texas Book Festival. The Texas Book Festival is a free annual book festival held in downtown Austin, Texas. The festival takes place each fall in October or November and includes programming for children and adults. [1] It is one of the largest and most critically acclaimed book festivals in the United States ...
The steady increase in the age of farmers is not unique to Texas, and is part of a national trend — the 2017 agriculture census found the average age of all U.S. farm producers rose 1.2 years ...
Research memorandum on rural life in the depression (1937) online edition; Schultz, Theodore W. Agriculture in an Unstable Economy. (1945) by Nobel-prize winning conservative online edition; Shannon, Fred Albert. Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online edition comprehensive survey; Wilcox, Walter W.
A Landcare survey conducted in 1992/93 revealed that field days in Australia have a high value among local farmers. [9] New Zealand's National Agricultural Fieldays is held annually in June at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton, New Zealand, and attracts 1,000 exhibitors and over 115,000 visitors through its gates. [10]
The Texas Book Festival returns in full force for 2022 this weekend in and around the Capitol.
Texas ranked as the fifth largest wine producing state by 2019. [14] The state is home to over 42 members of the Vitis grape vine family with fifteen being native to the state, more than any other region on earth. [15] [16] As of 2019, the state had over 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) planted with Vitis vinifera. [15]
The Texas Folklife Festival is an annual event sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures celebrating the many ethnicities represented in the population of the state of Texas. Thousands attend the three-day event each year, which features food, crafts, music, and dances from ethnic groups that immigrated ...