Catholic Rural Life

Catholic Rural Life announces the celebration for its 100th anniversary.

People from around the diocese gathered at St. Nicholas Parish in Belle River Aug. 20 for the annual Diocesan Rural life Celebration.

The Diocese of Victoria’s borders are row crops, hay fields, pecans, olives, producers of wine and cheese, cattle ranchers, shrimpers, fish farms and more.

While farmers are grateful to live in the country, “most are hurt badly by lower prices and the chaos in the processing and delivery of their particular products,” said Joe Borgerding, a member of St. Peter and Paul Parish in Elrosa for 64 years.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a virtual novena for farmers, farmworkers and small towns is scheduled for May 7-15, 2020.

The farm bill that passed both houses of Congress by wide margins doesn’t have money in it to protect endangered species, but it did preserve one that had been on the threatened list: bipartisanship.

When the House voted on the farm bill May 18, the measure’s merits were only partly considered. But what brought it down to a surprising defeat was not its content, but a vastly different subject: immigration.

Many family farmers in the United States are facing the worst combination of events since the “farm crisis” of the mid-1980s.