Ranching dinner addresses beef issues
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The Trans-Texas Corridor is another issue that may effect ranchers. Brockman said several agricultural groups are working on 14 amendments to the program that would make it more acceptable to landowners.
“They shouldn’t be condemning your land — our land to build service stations,” he said.
Brockman went on to say that companies should negotiate with the landowners.
There is also the use it or lose it amendment, in which if the state does not use land condemned along the corridor within five years, the former owner or heir can buy it back for the price the state paid.
Brockman said it is also being proposed that instead of giving landowners one lump sum for their property, they could get a percentage of income from toll roads or whatever the land is used for. That way they receive a steady stream of income, he said.
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The Paris News Story was published on April 21, 2005.