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Northeast Louisiana | Cotton is going to have to make some major price moves to get us to plant it again. And we've been cotton farmers for 4 generations!
However, there are some folks around here that don't have any grain storage on farm that have take some pretty bad hits on their grain marketing, so there is some buzz from some of them about going back to more cotton. In 2001, there were 50 active gins in Louisiana, I think there are about 35 now, and a good many of them are hurting.
Some of the dryland guys in northeast and east-central LA are still hanging on with cotton, because corn and beans haven't treated them well, but this year their cotton is looking bad. Way too dry.
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Cotton growers
