Lubbock is the center of the largest cotton producing area in the world. The South Plains, made up of 19 counties north of the Caprock Escarpment, has carried more than 3 million acres of cotton in some years, roughly 60 percent of it under irrigation. Plains Cotton Growers, headquartered in Lubbock since 1956, represents producers across 42 Texas High Plains counties that grow about 35 percent of the nation's cotton.
Lubbock County itself counted 1,286 farms on 465,867 acres in 2022, with 62,819 acres irrigated. Growers planted 265,656 acres of upland cotton in the county in 2024 and 243,194 in 2025, and that shift shows up elsewhere: grain sorghum went from 15,000 acres to 38,000 and sunflowers from 1,500 to 9,000 over the same period as producers diversified under financial pressure.
Agnomy connects Lubbock-area growers with verified local service providers who understand cotton stripping and module hauling, Ogallala well capacity, and South Plains rotations, making it easier to find, book, and manage the services your operation depends on.
