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Cotton in Kansas?

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DeltaRed

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Was just thinking,I saw cotton growihg in SW central Ks last spring.I was raised in central Ks,didnt know cotton was grown there.Is that a 'new'development?Idid see sign that mentioned something about KSU ag research.Anybody know anything about cotton in Kansas?Thanks,Steve
 
This is VERY interesting because I was driving in south east Kansas today and saw some there and I was thinking the same thing and was going to ask tonight. What an incredible coincidence. lol
 
TOO MANY!!!Not really a "collection",just a line of equipment that I farm with,plus some 'extra'stuff.4 JD combines:105 (gas)Corn Speacial,105 diesel,95sb(came from Ks in april),and a 55rb..I will probably sell the 2 105s after corn harvest.IH tractors:1256,826hydro,706turbo,Sm,SH,SC(this one is really my wifes),(reversed) F12/loader,M/mounted(4row)cultivator.These are the users/runners.5or 6 nonrunning IH tractors.And one 'lonely' Oliver 60.
 
Cotton has been here around Hugoton with a mill(gin?)for 5-6 years. There is a mill at Cullison (near Pratt) that has been there at least 5 years.
Here it was kind of centralized around the Hugoton - Moscow Area-- but now seems to be getting farther away.
The Panhandle of texas is only 40 miles from me and they have quite abit of cotton around Stratford and Dumas
All I know about cotton is what I learned driving 70 mph down the highway. I am an ex farmer so look at the fields as I go to Amarillo to see the Heart DR.
 
Been raising cotton under pivots the last two years here in southcentral kansas. Most is irrigated but is also raised on dryland. Does not compare dollarwise with irrigated corn or beans but uses a lot less water. Averaging between 1200-1500 lbs. of salable cotton/acre at about .70/#. Biggest advantage to cotton is the rotation factor with continous corn or beans. Biggest disadvantage is custom harvesting expense(.10/#} and ginning costs. Any questions feel free to ask but by no means an expert. Thanks! Joe
 
Ya know when these guys were on about how much better is was years ago... they used to sell these chocolate covered peanut clusters at the cash registers, and it was like an evil plot... you had to eat one, but in the heat of the truck on the ride home, if you didn't eat all of them it would get all stuck to the bag and be a big mess... well... that's the excuse I used...
nowdays it is my best choice for hardware/nuts and bolts.
 

Dang, Ken! You and I must be darn near neighbors!

I live in Goodwell just up the road from Stratford.

I sent you an email, so you'll have my contact info if you want to yak about tractors sometime...

Howard
 
Theres lots of cotton grown in the Winfield and Wellington areas of SC Kansas..They've done it for 10-15 years,maybe longer..
 
They have neen raising a lot of Cotton south of Whichita for seversl years. Walnut River Vslley. gitrib
 
They're gonna need to find some sort of crop that takes less water in Kansas. They're just about got their aquifer dried up, along with Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, most of Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. I run the harvest crew in 2000 from Texas to Idaho. If the crop wasn't grown on a pivot, it wasn't there. We harvested an awful lot of 5-20 bushel dryland wheat. In Idaho, if it wasn't on a pivot, it was sage brush and blow sand.

Pivots don't do any good if they have no water to push through them... It'll take 100 years to recharge the aquifer, and that's if they stop using out of it.
 
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