Scenes from various farm and ranch tours comprise this industrial film footage from 1956, including a presentation on rice species and irrigation in Beaumont, Texas and a presentation of Angus cattle at Sunny Slope Farms in Richmond, Texas. Later, families gather for a fish fry on the farm. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.

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