DR Farms

04/22/2026

Stop carbon capture in Jasper and Newton counties!

I have been trying to figure the financial gain for the companies looking to pump CO2 into our ground. I’m hoping to get someone that has been looking into this for a little longer, that can help me with the information I have found.

I cannot say this is accurate. I’m going by the information I have found on line.

It looks as if 13,000 metric tons of CO2 can be stored per acre. What I can find about carbon credits, the companies can receive $60-$80 per metric ton. If that is right, conservatively they get $600,000.00 per acre. Now that feels like I’m not finding the right information because that seems really high. If anyone can direct me to additional information, I would appreciate it.

If you are considering signing with them, please try to figure out what they are making on your property. You have the right to negotiate the terms and compensation

On a different note, I have been told that mineral owners will have rights and not surface owners. As it stands right now with the information I can find, that is NOT true. The Texas Supreme Court in Myers-Woodward found that pore space is owned by the surface estate. Now that could always change, but right now courts are finding for surface owners.

Based on a May 2025 Texas Supreme Court ruling in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Underground Services Markham, LLC, Texas law now holds that the surface owner, not the mineral lessee, owns the pore space below the surface, absent an agreement otherwise. This decision aligns Texas with the "American Rule," cementing that pore spaces are not minerals and belong to the surface estate, crucial for carbon sequestration and storage projects.

I’m just trying to put information out so that everyone involved can make an informed decision. We feel like every landowner should make the decisions that are best for them.

04/21/2026

Looking for mayhaw berries
Does anyone have some for sale?

04/20/2026

I found this from someone else’s post. I did not do this research

This is a great explanation of the dangers of Carbon Capture Sequestration. I copied and pasted from another group, please read.

I think I might be able to help out. I am a gas measurement tech by trade. I currently work in west Texas. So the best way I can explain it is that the concerns of injected CO2 into the ground under the aquifer are legit. It will be pipelined in and injected supposedly a mile or two under ground. The issues in Texas are more with injected produced water from fracking than CO2. When CO2 is injected it will be chilled to compress and liquify it. When a gas becomes unliquified, it will always revert back to its natural state as a gas and the expansion of it is what causes the pressure increase. It will seep into any cracks that it can find as it expands and if it gets into water source it then becomes extremely dangerous carbonic acid. In small concentrations, CO2 is safe. In larger concentrations such as a ruptured pipeline, then it kills vehicles, animals, possibly humans as it displaces the oxygen in the air. It is heavier than regular air we breathe so it will stay close to ground like a giant cloud. Did I also mention that our atmosphere is made up of only .05 percent CO2. It is a money making scam. Planting 200 trees will actually remove more CO2 out of atmosphere than what these projects will in 20 years. Also, any old casing that may still present from a long “capped” well, the CO2 will cause seepage of oil because of the increased pressure. I say capped in quotations because most of them weren’t done correctly and records of them are shoddy at best.

Expert #2:

I worked from the bottom up in the oilfield. I drilled wells in 5 different states and offshore. I was was a driller for 6 years then a Toolpusher. I helped develop the strategic petroleum reserve in Hackberry La. I ran core-barrels and took cores in every shale under Louisiana down to 20 thousand ft. I experienced naturally fractured formations where we struggled with lost circulation as deep as 13 thousand ft. After leaving the oilfield I spent 36 years with a pipeline company. I don’t believe you will find any unbiased geologist, petroleum engineer or knowledgeable oilfield hand that will agree this is safe. But now if their company is involved that would not be unbiased. Their advertisements say over a Mile deep. That’s just over 5 thousand feet. That’s not far below what we called surface casing. We were always at that point still making fast hole. Between poor cement jobs, old wells, natural faults etc. there is no way geologically as they push and squeeze over time that it won’t get in the aquifers. Go research the injection wells In Illinois and see how that’s working and others. Once it’s put down there it can never be retrieved. I see some politicians saying they need more information. It’s all on line go read it but find what’s unbiased. This is a catastrophe in the making. There is a reason it was kept so quiet. For the life of me I can’t understand their thinking.

04/20/2026

Here is one example of a Carbon Capture storage accident in Mississippi. Do we want this here? Land owners need to be informed and make a decision that works best for your families. I don’t fault anyone for signing a lease/easement but we won’t and we will fight to help keep our town from becoming like this one.

Companies are building carbon dioxide pipelines as a possible climate solution. But after a pipeline rupture sent dozens to the hospital in a Mississippi town, there are questions about their safety.

04/19/2026

We need to ban together and try to fight this. Write to Congressman, railroad commission or anyone that will lister

04/03/2026

Has anyone received a call from Exxon wanting to use your land for carbon capture? I didn’t know they were trying to come into Buna area.

12/29/2025

We just want to thank everyone that came out to see the lights this year!

For those that played “count the gnomes”

There were 13 gnomes throughout the lights

The winner of the drawing for a basket of farm goods is Baylee Watson. I’ll be calling to get your stuff to you.

See you next year!!

12/28/2025

Last night of the season! Open 6-9. Please no pets.

Thanks to all those who came and enjoyed the lights. We will be doing the drawing tomorrow.

12/28/2025

Only 2 nights left. Open 6-9 please no pets.

12/26/2025

This is the last weekend for lights. Open tonight, Sat and Sun unless it rains. Open 6-9pm. Please no pets. FREE event.