Texas cotton crop challenged by drought
8/22/2024 6:42:18 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Aransas County, TX
Armstrong County, TX
Atascosa County, TX
Austin County, TX
Bailey County, TX
Bee County, TX
Bell County, TX
Borden County, TX
Bosque County, TX
Briscoe County, TX
Brooks County, TX
Calhoun County, TX
Cameron County, TX
Carson County, TX
Castro County, TX
Cochran County, TX
Collingsworth County, TX
Colorado County, TX
Comanche County, TX
Coryell County, TX
Crosby County, TX
Dallam County, TX
Dawson County, TX
Deaf Smith County, TX
DeWitt County, TX
Dimmit County, TX
Donley County, TX
Duval County, TX
Eastland County, TX
Ellis County, TX
Erath County, TX
Falls County, TX
Fayette County, TX
Floyd County, TX
Freestone County, TX
Frio County, TX
Gaines County, TX
Garza County, TX
Goliad County, TX
Gray County, TX
Hale County, TX
Hall County, TX
Hamilton County, TX
Hansford County, TX
Hartley County, TX
Hemphill County, TX
Hidalgo County, TX
Hill County, TX
Hockley County, TX
Hood County, TX
Hutchinson County, TX
Jackson County, TX
Jim Hogg County, TX
Jim Wells County, TX
Johnson County, TX
Karnes County, TX
Kenedy County, TX
Kleberg County, TX
La Salle County, TX
Lamb County, TX
Lavaca County, TX
Leon County, TX
Limestone County, TX
Lipscomb County, TX
Live Oak County, TX
Lubbock County, TX
Lynn County, TX
Matagorda County, TX
Maverick County, TX
McLennan County, TX
McMullen County, TX
Milam County, TX
Mitchell County, TX
Moore County, TX
Navarro County, TX
Nueces County, TX
Ochiltree County, TX
Oldham County, TX
Parmer County, TX
Potter County, TX
Randall County, TX
Refugio County, TX
Roberts County, TX
Robertson County, TX
San Patricio County, TX
Scurry County, TX
Sherman County, TX
Somervell County, TX
Starr County, TX
Swisher County, TX
Terry County, TX
Victoria County, TX
Washington County, TX
Webb County, TX
Wharton County, TX
Wheeler County, TX
Willacy County, TX
Williamson County, TX
Yoakum County, TX
Zapata County, TX
Zavala County, TX
Start Date: 8/20/2024
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Cotton growers in the Lone Star state expect better yields and quality than in the past two dry years. Cotton fields in the Rio Grande Valley were drier than those of the Coastal Bend. Cotton acreage in the Rio Grande Valley was down quite a bit due to an extremely limited supply of irrigation water this year. The dryland fields looked poor in June, and many fields were too far gone to benefit from the rain of Hurricane Beryl in July. The irrigated cotton in Central Texas did not get enough water because fall rains failed to recharge groundwater, and the area ran out of water in July. Blooms and early bolls in the Panhandle were dropping in water-limited fields.
AgriLife Today (College Station, Texas), Aug 20, 2024
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