Mother Nature wasn’t very kind to the Texas High Plains during the 2020 crop year, as dry conditions throughout the season contributed to a higher level of abandonment, especially in non-irrigated cotton and ended with a large portion of the region in extreme drought. It is estimated that cotton growers in the PCG service area produced between 2.2-2.3 million bales in 2020, which is below the historical average. The reason that total is not more exact is the result of a change in policy by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service which discontinued the publication of crop reporting district level data ...