Texas farmers show off their diverse crops to Mid-South growers.
For the 30th year, National Cotton Council, through its Producer Information Exchange or P.I.E. program, brought cotton producers together from various regions of the U.S. to share ideas and learn from one another Eleven growers from Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee traveled to Texas, visiting four different regions of the state, seeing various commodities from cotton to cucumbers to sugarcane and grapes to sunflowers and sesame. Take a look at Texas production featured throughout the Texas tour.
See, Mid-South growers describe Texas agriculture as innovative, diverse
See Photo Gallery, Mid-South growers tour Texas farms, gins and ag industry
Double the bloom
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Cotton in bloom in Hockley County.
Cluster of goodness
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Cluster of grapes growing in a Sundown, Texas, vineyard.
Oily grapes
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Sundown vineyard with oil wells pumping in the background.
Bloomin Cucumbers
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Blooming cucumbers in Hale Center, Texas.
Cucumber bath
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Cucumbers on a conveyor at the Best Made Pickle Shed near Halfway, Texas.
Fuel
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Sorghum at the Diamond Ethanol Plant, Levelland, Texas.
Cotton Seed
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Cotton seed at the Valley Co-op Oil Mill, Harlingen, Texas.
Bale Press
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Cotton bale at EdCot Gin, Odem, Texas.
Round bales
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Round bales line the yard at Smith Gin Co-op, Odem, Texas.
Bright spot
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Sunflowers near Corpus Christi.
Ready for harvest
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Boll of Beauty
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Lower Rio Grande cotton boll.
Valley Cotton
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Lower Rio Grande cotton field awaiting harvest.
High Cotton
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La Villa, Texas, cotton.
Sesame Bloom
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Sesame in bloom near Lyford, Texas.
Itsy Bitsy
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Tiny sesame seeds.
Sweet commodities
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Sugarcane crop stands tall near Monte Alto, Texas.
Wall of cotton
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A cotton field along the U.S.-Mexican border wall., Progresso, Texas.