Planting season is underway on the South Plains of Texas. From cloudy, humid days this week to clear, warm afternoons, all accompanied by gusting winds, growers are busy planting corn and cotton. Some areas even received varying amounts of rainfall – a brief reprieve from the drought. Corn planted two weeks ago has surfaced, while other fields are days from emergence.
According to the USDA NASS reports, corn growers intend to plant 88.0 million acres in 2018, down 2 percent from 2017. "If realized this will be the lowest planted acreage since 2015. Compared with last year, planted acreage is expected to be down or unchanged in 33 of the 48 states estimated," according to a March 29 report. That same report states an increase by 7 percent in cotton acres, a total of 13.5 million acres to be planted.
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