“The three states with cotton planting progress as of April ... “Elsewhere, we do see 10% of the crop planted in California. Until recently it’s been very warm and dry, encouraging that ...

Cotton acreage and production peaked in the 1970s, but it remained one of the state’s biggest crops by any measure through the early 1990s. Then, as you can see from the chart, California ...

cotton and other crops on only 60% of its 5,000 acres this year, compared with 80% last year. “You don’t know how to plan.