One sign of the pullback from cotton in the Delta

One of the biggest swings away from cotton to corn in the South this year is in Mississippi’s south Delta, the country below U.S. 82. One consultant told us this week that 4 gins serving part of the south Delta would each only have 20% of their of their normal cotton acreage. “In other words,” he pointed out, “there isn’t enough cotton among the 4 gins to even permit one of them to run at capacity this fall.”