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“We will probably get 10,000 bales, and we average 55,000-plus,” said Philip Manske, gin manager at Associated Cotton Growers in Crosbyton.
They should talk to GregAbbott_TX GovAbbott and his Big Oil buddies. They’ll remind them that climate change is a fake news hoax. Crops will keep failing.
Can't be true. They don't believe in climate change in those deep red counties.
Don't blame Democrats!. Blame yourself for voting for them! NormalPeople VoteRed
Kind of have to say 'good' here. The only way to get some people (not going to say who) to actually pay attention to climate change is for that change to hurt big business. I do feel sorry for the workers that will suffer from this but not the for the share holders.
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Conservative rural voters will find out the hard way that you can't buy mother nature.
Don't worry -- climate change is just a Chinese hoax. Or something.
Money doesn’t = rain, growable temperatures.
According to Texas Big Oil there is no climate change.
Yet these same farmers will most likely vote for rep pols who do not give a damn about them.
That's Capitalism. They need to pull up them bootstraps and work harder.
Texas can be an oil and gas state that fuels climate change or an agriculture state but not both.
Well they can get federal help that they won’t have to pay back. Maybe like 10,000? Who knows? That number just came to mind.
Maybe some climate change deniers will come around once their pocket books are affected
5thCircAppeals Gee!! Maybe the scientists were right about climate change
Ya'll didn't listen.
It's cool. We won't need federal money or anything, we're gonna secede, right?
If you Texans to see that your state is turning into a desert, that's on you. Lived in Bryan to Houston for 30+ yrs. During that time, the rains have become spotty at best, and when it does, they are insane downpours. You are experiencing the birth of a desert.
Hey...let's make sure when the Traitors start blaming the Democrats for this we point out that it's the climate change they've kept willfully ignoring while obstructing every attempt to deal with it that's responsible.
This money could have helped