NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blowing sand and blistering heat have badly damaged the cotton crop in Texas, the country's biggest grower, industry analysts said Wednesday.
The losses in Texas, which is expected to plant 4.7 million acres of cotton out of the 9.5 million acres planted to the plant in the United States, range from 500,000 up to 1.5 million acres, they said.
While most of the country's attention was riveted by the devastating floods which drowned large swathes of the U.S. Midwest cropland, farms in Texas were savaged by heat, wind and blowing sand which scythed through emerging cotton plants.
"We're going to take a hit on total production," Carl Anderson, an influential cotton economist who had worked with Texas A&M University, told Reuters in an interview.
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