As merchants and mills wait for new crop cotton to impact the market, they are finding out that supplies for nearby shipment are both pricey and hard to come by.
As the 2014 cotton season moves toward harvest, it’s not too early for growers to begin looking for ways to profitably grow and manage cotton in the face of hard input costs and soft market prices. In the High Plains of Texas, one of the keys to profitability may be determining the best value and efficiency for water timing.
Spring rains may have caught West Texas cotton producers like David Warren off guard this season. But they didn’t mind one bit.