Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 9/19/16

Last October’s historic flood landed a hard blow to South Carolina cotton farmers, one they are not over yet.
USDA pegs South Carolina planted cotton acreage at 190,000 acres, down from 235,000 acres last year. “With the kind of season we had last year with the floods, we lost a lot of growers. Prices are not good, so our acreage is down,” said Clemson University Cotton Specialist…

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