The Raun Family has been farming rice for more than 80 years on the fertile plains of the Texas Gulf Coast near El Campo. Lowell Raun, Jr. is in the third generation of this rice farming family. His grandfather, George Raun (seen above in a 1947 photo), moved to Texas from Nebraska in 1913. George Raun raised his first rice crop in 1915. His three sons - Russell, Norris, and Lowell, Sr. - followed his lead and became rice producers. Today the Raun brothers and many of their children and grandchildren continue the family tradition of growing rice on the same land in Wharton County.