Pima Cotton Harvest As Bad As Feared

Our tenant's Pima cotton harvest is complete, and the results are poor. The crop was so bad that it wasn't even worth a second picking, the first time this has ever happened with our tenant's Pima cotton. The yield ended up being slightly less than two bales per acre; 973 pounds, to be exact. Pima cotton prices are holding steady at around $1.07 per pound, so the situation isn't quite as disastrous as it would be if our tenant had grown Acala (upland) cotton.

Dry Weather Favors Land Work and Wheat Planting

The weather this autumn was exceptionally dry, allowing our tenant to finish up all his post-harvest land work, including listing furrows for next year's cotton and getting this winter's wheat planted.

Planted Wheat Awaiting Irrigation

Poor Pima Crop Forces Rent Lower

Due to our tenant's economic distress, this year's rent payment will be lower than that of 2005. As usual, we have no idea how our tenant does this calculation, nor how it might come out next year.

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