Davis, Walt

Walt Davis was born into a ranching family in west Texas and spent his working life as a rancher. He grew up with the traditional methods and techniques that his family had used for many years and then in 1956 went off to Texas A&M College to learn "modern" agriculture. He studied animal husbandry, range science and agronomy at a time when tremendous changes were being made in what was considered to be "good" agricultural practice; in the span of one generation newly available antibiotics, insecticides, hybrid seeds, herbicides and chemical fertilizers along with greatly increased mechanizatio...