No Dryland Crop to Harvest: West Texas Cotton Farmers Open Up About the Harsh Realities of 2023
By A Mystery Man Writer
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West Texas is the largest cotton production area in the country, but after battling drought and heat, area farmers say the dryland crop is a failure, and the irrigated acres are only yielding half of normal.
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Tyne Morgan
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GinPress, The official semi-private blog of the Southeastern Cotton Ginners Association. Representing cotton ginners throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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Drought
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By Bill Robertson – AgFax
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