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<p>With it went some 300 acres of unharvested corn and a miscellany of other vegetables, altogether signifying a substantial loss to the farming program that helps Texas Department of Criminal Justice be self-sufficient in its prisoner food and clothing needs.</p>
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<p>But all told, TDCJ lost around 40 percent of its 2017 cotton crop &mdash; or 2,700 acres. Typically, the cotton is harvested by prisoners and sent along to prison-run factories where it&rsquo;s made into clothes for inmates. This year, TDCJ will compensate for the loss by using untouched stores from past years.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We still had cotton in inventory from the last crop season,&rdquo; Lumpkin said.</p>
<p>In a worst-case scenario, theoretically TDCJ could be forced to buy cotton from elsewhere in order to continue its clothing production operations &mdash; but so far that&rsquo;s never happened and prison officials don&rsquo;t anticipate that it will.</p>
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<p>In some ways, the timing of the storm was lucky &mdash; at least in terms of its impact on prison farming operations.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When we had our Memorial Day floods in May and June, our corn and milo was still in the field and had not been harvested, so that was a substantial impact,&rdquo; Lumpkin said. &ldquo;This year, being able to get the corn and milo out of the fields lessened the impact overall; but because of the cotton season, the timing of the event caused us to take the biggest hit on our cotton crops.&rdquo;</p>
<p>This year, green beans, carrots and corn had already been harvested &mdash; and those foods might just play a bigger role in the inmate diets in the near future. The lost crops &mdash; squash, okra, eggplant, peas and peppers &mdash; will be a little scarcer.</p>
<p>&ldquo;At the end of the day, TDCJ was pretty lucky considering how significant a storm Harvey was and the amount of rainfall that fell,&rdquo; spokesman Jason Clark said. &ldquo;At the end of the day, we came out OK.&rdquo;</p>
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