Nueces County plants more grain sorghum acreage than any other county in Texas, an estimated 14 to 15 percent of the state total. Cotton and sorghum exports were one of the principal reasons the Port of Corpus Christi was built almost a century ago, and the port opened in 1926 as a cotton export terminal. Port customers moved 2.2 million tons of agricultural commodities in 2023, up nearly 13.5 percent.
Coastal Bend growers typically plant in March, harvest grain sorghum in June and July, and harvest cotton in August, one of the earliest row crop harvest windows in the United States. The Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center here, opened in 1974, works on irrigated production systems for cotton, corn, and grain sorghum plus specialty field crops, digital agriculture, and yield forecasting, and heads an Extension district of 18 county offices.
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