Crop Report from 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Expect to see significantly less cotton than usual blooming in Mississippi later this year.

Row crop growers in the state had already indicated scaling back cotton acreage by 30% when they locked in their planting intentions for 2025, anticipating planting about 360,000 acres. That was before consistent rain through much of May -- the crop’s primary planting window in Mississippi -- kept planters out of fields.