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/PRNewswire/ -- Hope, the first and only Black woman-owned magazine in Indianapolis, announced its 2023 class of Hope 25 honorees. In an illustrious two-day...

Its a new season for cotton farmers in the Rio Grande Valley, but it’s already not looking good.

Across the U.S. Cotton Belt, weather, yields and production varied wildly in 2022.

Benjamin Crumley Flooded cotton field near Pierce, Texas. Two inches of rain a godsend for Corpus Christi growers, 5 to 7 inches near El Campo floods fields. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 The early May weekend rain that inundated much of South Texas was both blessing and curse, depending on geography. For farmers in the Corpus Christi area, the 2 inches of rain was a godsend. “This was a million-dollar rain for Nueces and San Patricio counties,�...

Rio Grande Valley cotton. Growers are preparing to plant the 2021 crop. Growers replant corn after a devastating February freeze, while dryland cotton farmers wait on a rain. South Texas cotton producers are taking a wait and see attitude as they watch temperatures and soil moisture and finish planting or replanting grain crops. The mid-February freeze damaged some early-planted crops from the Coastal Bend into the Rio Grande Valley, according to Extension specialists Danielle Sekula, a...