Whether it is better to strip the field and start over or harvest a low-yielding crop, that is the financial question facing cotton farmers at the end of what is predicted to be a dismal season.There are ways cotton producers can determine if it’s more financially feasible to reap a smaller cotton crop, strip the crop or take the insurance covering the yield and plow over the field in hopes of a better season next year.Farmers determine the answer by calculating the amount of money they could have made from pounds squeezed out from a failed cotton crop per acre ...