Texas farmers and ranchers have had quite a year. Whether they supplied restaurants with local produce or welcomed families to pick their own, even green pastures and rows of blackberries weren’t immune to the pandemic. Add to that the mid-February winter blast that brought days of frigid temperatures and it felt like many just couldn't catch a break. (Earlier this year we spoke to a rancher who had to drag cattle off icy ponds and rescue nearly frozen abandoned calves.) None of that to be overshadowed, however, by a record-setting cold front that quietly dipped over North Texas on April 21, which most of us city slickers probably didn't even think twice about. The late-season chill pillaged delicate early spring loot on farms north of Dallas.