Texas Plains is frontrunner in state cotton production

Texas cotton farmers produced almost 6.2 million bales last year from 4.6 million harvested acres. Planted acreage was 6.2 million, up from 5.8 million in 2013. Harvested acreage was significantly higher than the 2013 figure of 3.1 million, according Southwest Farm Press.

The Southern High Plains region was the top production area with almost 2.4 million bales harvested from 2.1 million acres. The Northern High Plains produced slightly less than 870,000 bales from 544,500 acres.

Third highest producer was the Northern Low Plains with 483,200 bales from 399,500 acres. The Southern Low Plains accounted for 334,100 bales from 393,300 acres.

Those top four production areas accounted for almost 4.1 million bales of production. The Coastal Bend and the Upper Coast combined tallied for more than 900,000 bales.