- Weather has been too dry and too hot for too long in Texas,
which is starting to look like a desert state, according to Carl
Anderson, Extension professor emeritus, Texas A&M University. -
Anderson anticipates that as much of 50 percent of the 7.1
million acre Texas cotton crop will be lost due to extreme
conditions. The 7.1 million acres include roughly 5 million
dryland acres, and about 2.1 million irrigated. - The Southeast
and Mid-South could produce a combined crop of between 8.6 and
8.8 million bales, while the Far West is expected to produce a
crop of between 2.1 million and 2.2 million bales. O.A.
Cleveland, professor emeritus, Mississippi State University,
expects the Southeast cotton growing region to produce a crop of
about 4.3 million bales, with an average yield of between 700
pounds and 750 pounds. “Georgia was very droughty to begin with,
although not to the extent of Texas,” Cleveland said. “They have
had recent rains, but many are isolated and it’s caused an
extremely spotty crop. You can h