TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Agribusiness, Land & Minerals includes Business Management, Crops and Equipment, and Livestock departments.

Business Management provides financial management and cost accounting for agricultural operations across the state to include budget and expenditure oversight, surplus sales, financial reporting and general accounting.

Crops and Equipment manages the direct production of field and edible crops for use within the agency. Field crops include grain and hay, which are processed to feed livestock. Cotton is transferred to TCI textile mills to make inmate clothing and bedding. Edible crops are produced and sent to agency food service departments to be prepared for meals or sent to the agency canning plant for processing. Crops and Equipment also includes support services such as farm shops, harvesting operations, plant maintenance operations, entomology and pest control.

Land & Minerals maintains agency records relevant to TDCJ land issues including abstracts, deeds, title opinions, easements, seismic permits, land leases, and oil and gas leases.

Livestock manages the commercial cow herds and stocker operations, broodmare and horse development operations, laying hen operations, farrow-to-finish swine operations, feed production facilities and meat packing plants. These operations provide beef, pork, and eggs to agency food service departments to be prepared and served. The Livestock department also provides unit correctional staff with horses, which are utilized to oversee outside inmate work squads and canine tracking programs.