Drought has damaged Texas cotton, ramped up abandonment rate
7/24/2022 3:33:59 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Andrews County, TX
Armstrong County, TX
Bailey County, TX
Borden County, TX
Brewster County, TX
Briscoe County, TX
Carson County, TX
Castro County, TX
Childress County, TX
Cochran County, TX
Coke County, TX
Collingsworth County, TX
Concho County, TX
Cottle County, TX
Crane County, TX
Crockett County, TX
Crosby County, TX
Culberson County, TX
Dallam County, TX
Dawson County, TX
Deaf Smith County, TX
Dickens County, TX
Dimmit County, TX
Donley County, TX
Ector County, TX
Edwards County, TX
El Paso County, TX
Fisher County, TX
Floyd County, TX
Gaines County, TX
Garza County, TX
Glasscock County, TX
Gray County, TX
Hale County, TX
Hall County, TX
Hansford County, TX
Hartley County, TX
Hemphill County, TX
Hockley County, TX
Howard County, TX
Hudspeth County, TX
Hutchinson County, TX
Irion County, TX
Jeff Davis County, TX
Jones County, TX
Kent County, TX
Kimble County, TX
King County, TX
Kinney County, TX
Lamb County, TX
Lipscomb County, TX
Loving County, TX
Lubbock County, TX
Lynn County, TX
Martin County, TX
Maverick County, TX
Menard County, TX
Midland County, TX
Mitchell County, TX
Moore County, TX
Motley County, TX
Nolan County, TX
Ochiltree County, TX
Oldham County, TX
Parmer County, TX
Pecos County, TX
Potter County, TX
Presidio County, TX
Randall County, TX
Reagan County, TX
Real County, TX
Reeves County, TX
Roberts County, TX
Runnels County, TX
Schleicher County, TX
Scurry County, TX
Sherman County, TX
Sterling County, TX
Stonewall County, TX
Sutton County, TX
Swisher County, TX
Taylor County, TX
Terrell County, TX
Terry County, TX
Tom Green County, TX
Upton County, TX
Uvalde County, TX
Val Verde County, TX
Ward County, TX
Webb County, TX
Wheeler County, TX
Winkler County, TX
Yoakum County, TX
Zavala County, TX
Start Date: 7/21/2022
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Drought is damaging the cotton crop in Texas, ratcheting up the abandonment rate to 32%, the third highest on record. The cotton production forecast was last this dire in 2011, when intense heat and drought drove the abandonment rate to a record 36%.
“The biggest problem in West Texas is there's absolutely nothing to fall back on,” according to Brad Rippey, USDA meteorologist. “There's no subsoil moisture. Or there’s very little topsoil moisture. And so with each day of triple-digit heat continuing to add insult to injury, we've got more than 70% of the U.S. cotton crop considered to be in a drought area right now."
AgWeb (Mexico, Mo.), July 21, 2022
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