Bad Weather Strikes 100,000 Acres Of Cotton, Corn Fields In Texas

June 25, 2008 7:09 p.m. EST

College Station, PA (AHN) - Baseball-size hail has damaged tens of thousands of acres of cotton and corn fields in Texas this week.

In Lubbock Country, 60,000 acres of crops, mostly cotton, were damaged or destroyed, according to a report of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, a community-based education provider.

The report also puts corn field damage in Bailey County at about 50,000 acres.

Parmer, Gaines, Cochran, Yoakum, Dickens, Garza, Hall, Hardeman, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Hudspeth, Pecos, and Floyd also reported damaged crops from the hail.

The devastation came when cotton plants in Fisher, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan, and Scurry Counties in the Southern Rolling Plains of Texas are reeling from severe heat and dry weather.

High temperature and lack of rain also stressed corn fields in Hale and Swisher Counties.