OHB 0094 | Oral History

OHB 0094

Founder of Uvalde Producers Feed and Elevator, Inc., Uvalde, Texas. Family background; farming and education near Weslaco, Texas; employment with Texas A&M Extension Service; experiences during Depression in College Station, Texas; assignment as county agricultural agent for Jones and Brown Counties; employment with Quaker Oats Company developing feed, 1948; purchase of Uvalde Producers Wool-Mohair, 1952; description of wool and mohair business; split of operation into feed and grain business and wool and mohair business; merger with Dolph Briscoe’s wool and mohair business; sale of wool and mohair business, 1970; comments on goat raising near Uvalde and problems with predators; storage and sale of corn, milo, and wheat; purchase of grain elevator, Knippa, Texas; comments on sons’ management of feed and grain business; involvement in buying and selling grain, soybeans, and guar beans; volume of sales in feed and grain business; reasons for decrease in grain sales; personnel and equipment requirements for grain business; financing of company; comments about John Nance Garner as banker; description of organizational structure; views on competition in grain business; comments on credit business; farming in Batesville, Texas; trade association and civic activities; educational advice for students of business.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 117 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview July 12, 1984

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