Word: hardpan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the fringe rice farmers have stopped trying to scratch a living out of the hardpan topsoil in the Texas Gulf Coast area. Now even Jay Anderson, 57, whose grandfather came to Texas from Illinois 87 years ago to build a highly successful farm operation, has lost money for two years in a row. "I've never seen so much gloom and doom in the rice belt," he says. "There's no light in the tunnel...