Drought increased abandonment of Texas cotton
10/1/2018 12:00:00 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Texas
Archer County, TX
Armstrong County, TX
Bailey County, TX
Baylor County, TX
Borden County, TX
Briscoe County, TX
Carson County, TX
Castro County, TX
Childress County, TX
Clay County, TX
Cochran County, TX
Collingsworth County, TX
Cottle County, TX
Crosby County, TX
Dallam County, TX
Dawson County, TX
Deaf Smith County, TX
Dickens County, TX
Donley County, TX
Floyd County, TX
Foard County, TX
Gaines County, TX
Garza County, TX
Gray County, TX
Hale County, TX
Hall County, TX
Hansford County, TX
Hardeman County, TX
Hartley County, TX
Haskell County, TX
Hemphill County, TX
Hockley County, TX
Hutchinson County, TX
Jack County, TX
Kent County, TX
King County, TX
Knox County, TX
Lamb County, TX
Lipscomb County, TX
Lubbock County, TX
Lynn County, TX
Mitchell County, TX
Montague County, TX
Moore County, TX
Motley County, TX
Ochiltree County, TX
Oldham County, TX
Palo Pinto County, TX
Parker County, TX
Parmer County, TX
Potter County, TX
Randall County, TX
Roberts County, TX
Scurry County, TX
Sherman County, TX
Stephens County, TX
Stonewall County, TX
Swisher County, TX
Terry County, TX
Throckmorton County, TX
Wheeler County, TX
Wichita County, TX
Wilbarger County, TX
Wise County, TX
Yoakum County, TX
Young County, TX
Start Date: 9/14/2018
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The abandonment rate for the Texas Plains cotton crop will be around 40 to 50 percent, including dryland and irrigated cotton. In 2011, a disastrous year of drought, the abandonment rate was 66 percent.
SouthWest Farm Press (Houston, Texas), Oct. 1, 2018
In the U.S., 14 million acres were planted in cotton, but the estimate for harvested cotton acreage was 10.55 million acres. The divergence between planted and harvested acres has not been so large in a few years and was attributed to abandonment in Texas, due to drought, according to Warren Preston, deputy chief economist for U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Texas farm bureau (Waco, Texas), Sept. 14, 2018
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