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Benjamin Crumley
Flooded cotton field near Pierce, Texas. Two inches of rain a godsend for Corpus Christi growers, 5 to 7 inches near El Campo floods fields.
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
The early May weekend rain that inundated much of South Texas was both blessing and curse, depending on geography.
For farmers in the Corpus Christi area, the 2 inches of rain was a godsend. “This was a million-dollar rain for Nueces and San Patricio counties,” says Josh Mcginty, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension specialist, Corpus Christi.
On the flip side, Clyde Crumley, an independent crop consultant in El Campo, says many of his cotton clients were hard hit.
Rio Grande Valley cotton. Growers are preparing to plant the 2021 crop. Growers replant corn after a devastating February freeze, while dryland cotton farmers wait on a rain.
South Texas cotton producers are taking a wait and see attitude as they watch temperatures and soil moisture and finish planting or replanting grain crops.
The mid-February freeze damaged some early-planted crops from the Coastal Bend into the Rio Grande Valley, according to Extension specialists Danielle Sekula, and Josh McGinty and South Texas Cotton, Grain Association Executive Director Jeff Nunley and Webb Wallace, executive director, Cotton and Grain Producers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.