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Viewpoint: Drift Damage

he last two growing seasons in Texas’ High Plains AVA saw historically wretched weather that cut wine grape production by two-thirds, leaving the state’s wine business between a rock and a hard place. Now, legal claims that a chemical herbicide drift from nearby cotton fields has damaged thousands and

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