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Oklahoma to see 555,000 acres of cotton harvested in 2017 season, up from 290,000 acres in 2016 and 205,000 acres in 2015 due to alternative crop prices, cotton acreage has been ramping up, said Randy Boman, Oklahoma State University Southwest Research and Extension Center director and OSU Cooperative Extension cotton program leader.
According to the USDA November Crop Production Report indicates Oklahoma is now the nation’s fourth-leading producer of cotton with an estimated crop of 1.1 million bales. Last year’s crop was 617,000 bales. Oklahoma ginned 374,000 bales of cotton in 2015.
