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Texas Cotton Crop Hit Hard by Sand Storms And Heat

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.

Full Story: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN183974
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honortheearth
post Today, 08:36 AM



It is interesting to see how these floods have hit the soy and corn belt, and now this has happened to the cotton belt. Without a doubt, these areas comprise a substantial portion of the GM plants. There is no doubt Mother Nature and Father Sky are very angry at what is being done to their plant life.