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Texas | I farm around the Lubbock area and we will be growing cotton for a long time. Cotton acres here stay pretty consistant but we are starting to see more rotations. Problem here is that our water is beginning to run low. People are beginning to cut back to watering only half circles and rotating the other half to wheat or a grain crop and making it dryland. Yields will continue to go up. Drip acres are increasing and we are seeing yields of 2000 to 2500 lbs on drip fields with 4 gpm and less. Pivots yields are continuing to increase also. I think yield is being driven by all of the new varieties as well as the new technologies. Growers are using more PGRs than ever before. We used to think we had to have a waste high plant to grow 2 bale cotton. Now we are growing 3 bale and higher on knee high cotton. | |
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Future of Cotton?
