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Farmers on the Texas Gulf Coast are preparing for Hurricane Harvey.  Unharvested crops are at risk of damage.  Matagorda County cotton farmer Bob Reed has his crop out of the field, but he tells the Texas Farm Bureau Radio Network there are many farmers putting in long hours to get done before the storm.

“A lot of cotton in the field, maybe as much as 50 percent of the cotton still in the fields around here,” said Reed, “so everybody is scrambling, working longer than normal to get that crop out.”

Reed says the cotton crop is one of the biggest in many years.

Continue reading Texas farmers race against Harvey to get cotton harvested at Brownfield Ag News.