News of the internal investigation into a relationship between Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro and a Mexican-born staffer emerged as Almagro is presiding over the organization’s annual meeting in Peru.
“It just didn’t come up. We hardly had anything. It just wasn’t in the cards this year,” said Evans, a third-generation cotton grower.much of this year’s cotton harvest in the U.S., which produces about 35% of the world’s crop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast that more than 40% of what U.S. farmers planted in the spring would be abandoned because of drought.
“Subsoil moisture and topsoil moisture was already low to start, and it just got worse and worse,” said Graham Soley, a USDA agricultural economist. The region’s arid, sandy soils and high rates of moisture loss from evaporation and plants means rainfall can change soil conditions for farmers fairly quickly, Lewis said. So if this winter provides enough rainfall, next year’s harvest could look very different.“But the patterns of weather events have become so sporadic,” she added, “that it’s hard to define normal.”
Todd Straley, who manages a cotton gin in Plainview, Texas, said his region has experienced five years of below-average harvests that have accelerated the closure and consolidation of nearby facilities. Larry Black, who manages a ginning co-operative in Roscoe, Texas, about 150 miles away, said his facility processes cotton from 100,00 acres of nearby farmland. Last year, the facility processed 86,000 bales. This year, he is expecting around 4,000.“It’s tough on everybody when we don’t make a crop,” Black said. He estimates losses this year at the farmer-owned gin will amount to $1 million, but said profits from a strong harvest in 2021 would serve as a buffer.
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