Recently there have been two excellent articles published in the online version of the Casa Grande Dispatch, Pinal Central, that discuss our cotton farm, our family, some history and the challenges of having no water allotment. Excerpts and links to the stories are shown below.
For longtime Pinal family farm, ag education is future
(excerpt) A row of one-room cabins, built in the World War II era and once temporary homes for migrant farmworkers, now sits empty on Caywood Farms, near Eleven Mile Corner.
As machines have replaced workers and technology and genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have changed the way of life for area growers, the farm has evolved. Students and agri-tourists, rather than migrant workers, are now the most frequent visitors to Caywood Farms.
Read more at Pinal Central.
No water means no cotton on historic farm
(excerpt) For the first time in the 80-year history of her family’s farm, the fields are empty. With no water allotted to them this year, the Caywoods did not plant any cotton.
“We would have planted cotton, corn and alfalfa this year like we do every year,” Caywood said. “But we haven’t had any water since June so we decided not to plant. Usually, the cotton would be growing right now.”
Read more at Pinal Central.
