‘It’s important to me that this gin stays open’: Panhandle’s Hightower harvests first bale at Farmers Cooperative Gin

  • ‘It’s important to me that this gin stays open’: Panhandle’s Hightower harvests first bale at Farmers Cooperative Gin
    ‘It’s important to me that this gin stays open’: Panhandle’s Hightower harvests first bale at Farmers Cooperative Gin
    CHILDRESS — Steve Hightower, of Panhandle, recently harvested the first bale of the 2024 crop at Farmers Cooperative Gin.Traveling over 100 miles southeast to support the gin which once served his grandparents, Laymon and Vera Hightower, of Tell, Hightower said, despite growing up in Dimmitt and Hereford, and now farming 6,000 acres in Panhandle, Childress County will always be home....

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