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, and Josh McGinty and South Texas Cotton, Grain Association Executive Director Jeff Nunley and Webb Wallace, executive director, Cotton and Grain Producers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.