Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune / ContributorA bad year for cotton spells disaster for the state, which leads the nation in cotton production. As the state’s largest agricultural export, cotton is responsible for thousands of jobs in other sectors, such as ginning companies, warehouses and oil mill processing plants.
“The biggest earner in the South Plains is the agriculture industry, so it’s a serious deal when your whole economy feels that,” Heffington said. What Heffington has on his farm now isn’t promising. It’s one of his worst crops in the 35 years he’s been farming. The cotton that did manage to grow has a bloom at the top the size of a small acorn — half of its typical size. Once crop insurance adjusts the value of the fields next month, that cotton likely will be considered a loss.
Heffington said that crop insurance is a lot like home insurance, in that customers aren’t 100 percent covered.
TexasTribune Nah, climate isn’t a problem. Better we spend that money busing migrants the farmers need to N.Y.
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