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About 80% of Larry Ford's cotton is under irrigation. He farms in a watershed and spring basin under strict water-use restrictions in Florida.
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Larry Ford says you can't move forward if you keep looking back, and nothing's guaranteed. For that, he is the 2020 Farm Press/Cotton Foundation High Cotton Award from the Southeast.Brad Haire
For his leadership in agriculture with a mind to caring for the land, the cotton industry, Larry Ford is the 2020 Farm Press/Cotton Foundation High Cotton Award from the Southeast.
In Ford's part of the world in Greenwood, Fla., cotton dances well in rotation with peanuts. His typical rotation includes about 1,000 acres of peanuts, 2,000 to 2,400 acres of cotton and 250 to 400 acres of corn. He also has a 125-herd pure bread Brahma cattle operation.
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