Jimmy Skrine is a man of few words. The Portal-area farmer just quietly, humbly grows his crops — cotton, soybeans, peanuts, wheat and beef cattle — nurtures them and harvests them each and every year, as he has for more than 60 years. Skrine Farms, which he has run since 1961, is more than 1,700 acres when combined with the portion his son oversees, on Portal-Metter Highway just outside the Portal city limits.