Robbins named 2021 High Cotton winner for the Southwest
Last fall, Robbie Robbins harvested his 62nd cotton crop. Five picker balers, accompanying equipment and employees converged on his Altus, Okla., farms to harvest 6,000 acres of cotton a stark contrast to the mules he worked as a young boy on the family farm or his first five-acre cotton crop produced as a junior in high school.
Robbins credits his success to soil tests, variety test plots, a good entomologist and irrigation. Early in his career, he said Extension agents played a major role. “They helped young farmers grow, learn and do better.”