RELEASED: June 30, 2017

Cotton Acreage Continues to Rise in Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the Acreage and Grain Stocks reports today, showing Tennessee farmers are planting more cotton this year than last.

Upland cotton acreage in Tennessee was estimated at 320,000, up 65,000 acres from 2016. The U.S. total upland cotton acreage is estimated at 12.1 million acres, up 20 percent from the previous year. Continue reading at JUNACR17_TN.