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Article: Not walkin'in tall cotton: Area gin feels effects of drought.
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- Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2006
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Byline: Kristen Bishop
Oct. 18--The recent rainfall that's covered the Southeast during the past two days is about two months too late to have any impact on area counties' struggling cotton crops this year. Lawrence and Limestone, two of the state's top cotton-producing counties, have seen a dramatic reduction in cotton yields compared to past years. According to Alabama Farm Service Agency calculations, Lawrence County farmers yielded an average of 675 pounds of cotton per acre in 2005. FSA officials haven't tallied this year's yield, but are estimating it at 325 to 400 pounds per acre. "We'll be lucky if we actually have that much," said Heath Potter, a ...
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