Annual Rainfall and Dryland Cotton Lint Yield—Southern High Plains of Texas

Evaluation of a Wireless Solar Powered Personal Weather Station

“…We are engaged in a field campaign in the southern region of the Texas High Plains (THP) where we are evaluating dryland cotton lint yield as a function of rainfall [14]. For this purpose, we calculate crop water productivity (CWP, kg/m 3 ), defined as the crop yield [kg/m 2 ] per unit of crop evapotranspiration (ET, m), and in this calculation we used long-term county data for both the dryland cotton lint yield and rainfall for sixteen southern counties in the THP.…”

“…Results showed that the top four counties with the highest CWP were Lubbock, Martin, Lynn, and Howard and of these counties Martin and Howard are in the most southern region of the THP. This is a significant result as these counties are subject to extreme environmental conditions and the management production methods used by dryland producers represent the future schemes that will need to be adopted in other counties to sustain the emerging dryland cropping systems across the THP [14].…”