By Violeta Trevizo Advocates and nonprofit executives from across Texas are flocking to Austin this week for the annual Farmworker Housing Summit. Guadalupe Economic Services Corporation of Lubbock is one of many organizations that will be represented at the summit. Led by Executive Director Diana Lopez, the company’s main mission at previous summits was to promote the Vista Rita […]
Organic Growers Silent on Monsanto’s Cotton Hub Plan
April 6, 2016 by
A new hour and a new power are emerging in the West Texas cotton industry, as marked by last week’s groundbreaking ceremony for Monsanto‘s $140-million facility in Lubbock. The St. Louis-based company announced at a Lubbock Economic Development Alliance news conference in January that the state-of-the-art plant will be its primary U.S. hub for all commercial cotton-seed-processing operations. […]
