Category Archives: January

Grain Sorghum Pricing for 2021 & Managing Your Crop

Updated from the November ‘Texas Sorghum Insider’ (Texas Grain Sorghum Assn.)   Prospects for grain sorghum acreage in Texas in 2021 are more favorable than the past several years.  Pricing is up with adjustments relative to Dec21 corn ($4.18/bu as of this writing).  Depending on your Texas location this puts the hundredweight price in the range of $8.00/cwt and even $9.00/cwt near the Texas Gulf Coast.  Of course, there is a lot that can happen between now and planting time let alone harvest time in 2021.   These… Read More →

2016 On-Farm Cotton Variety Results for South and East Texas

by Gaylon Morgan, Josh McGinty, Dale Mott, and CEAs and IPM Agents What a year 2016 was for cotton production in South and East Texas. We had many regions with superb yield and quality, while other regions that suffered tremendously from excessive late-season rainfall. These differences are reflected in the 2016 RACE trail results. Hopefully, the current prices will hold or improve as we move into the 2017 season, and the 2016 RACE trial results will provide some guidance on variety selection. Variety selection is the most important… Read More →