Texas cotton is struggling to keep up with economic pressures, but new funding might help

In Odem, Texas, outside Corpus Christi, Jon Whatley and his crew are gearing up to start harvesting corn. In a few weeks, it’ll be cotton.

Whatley owns J&K Whatley Farms, and his cotton fields are about 80% done blooming. In the last stages of its life, a cotton flower turns shades of white, pink and red.

“So, one day white, three days red, and then dead. So it’s gettin’ close, gettin’ close,” Whatley said…

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