Texas is still fourth largest harvest on record for cotton, even though its cotton yield is expected to drop 32 percent from last year.
Nation's leading cotton producing state produced 8.5 million of bales last year but projection from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) of 5.7 million bales for current is due to drought which affected dryland fields.
Although yield is affected by bad weather it harvested 652 pounds per acre which is well below last year's 724 pounds per acre. Drought affected 2.2 million planted acres during this season.
This also led to down fall in national production by 11 percent at 21.3 million bales compared to previous year's production of 23.9 million bales.
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