Mother Nature generally was not kind to Texas High Plains cotton growers during the 2019 crop year. It began with an especially wet May that caused some growers to abandon cotton planting altogether, and ended with a belowaverage harvest, thanks largely to an especially hot and dry August. Cotton growers in the Plains Cotton Growers service area produced just more than 3 million bales in 2019, which is below the historical average. That figure is a decrease from the 3.94 million 480-pound bales produced during the 2018 growing season, and also less than the 3,235,000 million projected by NASS in their January 2020 ...