Zach Hightower’s wife, Reagan, joins him with the first bale harvested during the 2023 cotton crop at Farmers Cooperative Society #1 in Wellington. The co-op cranked up Monday, Oct. 9 and has ginned 7,361 bales as of Tuesday, Nov. 7, projecting a total of 55,000-60,000 for the season. Hightower’s cotton came from his irrigated half-circle of Delta-Pine 1820, near Arlie. “The cotton graded...
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