Texas’ cotton industry is facing its worst harvest in years — costing the state more than $2 billion

  • Texas’ cotton industry is facing its worst harvest in years — costing the state more than $2 billion
    Texas’ cotton industry is facing its worst harvest in years — costing the state more than $2 billion

    JAYME LOZANO | TEXAS TRIBUNE

    LUBBOCK — Cotton production has been decimated by drought and extreme heat this year, costing Texas High Plains farmers and other agricultural industries at least $2 billion, according to one estimate.

    “There’s just not much crop out there,” said Brad Heffington, a cotton farmer in Littlefield. “A lot of cotton burned up and a lot of it never even made it up to begin wit…