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Prior to becoming a member of the TBCJ Board, Fordyce was director of TBCJ's Agribusiness, Land and Minerals.
From the TBCJ Agribusiness website:
Agribusiness operates and manages over 139,000 acres located in 47 counties in Texas. Employing approximately 300 employees and utilizing over 2,500 offenders. Production is diversified and ranges from 24 varieties of edible crops to a cow and heifer herd in excess of 10,000 head. In addition to production enterprises, the department manages a pork packing plant, beef processing plant, vegetable canning plant, two feedmills, two cotton gins, and an alfalfa dehydrator.
Offenders are an integral part of the labor force and are used in many capacities on the farm level. Job duties range from clerks in the farm and shop offices, tractor and heavy equipment operators, to line squad members that clean fence rows and drainage ditches and harvest crops. Jobs in various agriculture programs such as the pork packing plant, beef processing plant, canning plant, and feedmills allow the offender to obtain a skill and acquire experience that can eventually be used in the outside world.
Agribusiness works with the Texas Association of Second Harvest Food Banks. Through this partnership TDCJ participates in various programs to help feed the hungry and provide assistance to communities throughout the state.
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/divisions/finance/finance_ag_what_we_do.html |