Roping the wind? Seems near to impossible to think about it doesn’t it? Can’t you imagine a little boy on his stick horse trying to catch it with his rope and loop? Toss after toss, the rope falls to the ground with the dust being carried away by the very air he’s trying to catch. 

Now consider this: Are Texas landowners any different than that little boy?

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To a lengthy list of problems the drought has caused in our area the past couple of years I’m going to add the toll it has taken on my pecan crop. Pecans produce on a biennial cycle, alternating each year between a low-yield harvest and a high-yield harvest. Ordinarily this year would have seen a high-yield harvest here, had the trees received a decent amount of moisture. They didn’t, and as a result, most of my trees have no nuts on them at all.

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As a loan officer, I thought I understood all the challenges involved in financing a rural home. But recently, I learned from personal experience just how important it is to have Farm Credit as a financing option for the rural market.

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