Although corn and sorghum planting continues to progress across Texas, agronomists suggest that some farmers might switch from planting acres in corn and sorghum to cotton this year amidst continuing drought.
In West Central Texas, Reagan Noland, an assistant professor and extension agronomist for Texas A&M University, said both corn and sorghum acreage will be extremely limited this year due to dry conditions and depleted irrigation water supplies. Noland said it is a possibility for farmers to still plant grain sorghum through mid-April, but it’s not likely unless it starts raining soon. Instead of growing dryland grain sorghum, Noland said many growers are likely to change plans and grow cotton instead as a result of the continued drought conditions in the region.
“We haven’t received any rain in March,” Noland said, “and rainfall over the past several months has been very marginal.”
