Visit Lubbock welcomes the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association (TCGA) to the Hub City for its annual meeting and cotton trade ...

But the recent triple-digit heat means the number of irrigated fields ... Texas accounts for 42% of total U.S. cotton production, and the majority of that is grown around Lubbock, which is known ...

Nearly 57% of Texas is in extreme drought, and with the most severe level of it parked over West Texas and the Texas Panhandle, the drought is starting to rob even irrigated cotton fields of a crop.

That’s the hope of everyone who gathered for the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce’s Salute to Ag luncheon, in recognition of ...