South Georgia’s cotton crop could get a double blow this year – from drought and from corn. A surging interest in biofuels has led more farmers to plant corn instead of cotton. But the Thomasville Times Enterprise reports that many area farmers who want to plant cotton are holding off because the ground is too dry. Some say they’ll plant soybeans instead if rains don’t come to South Georgia in the coming month. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center expects drought to persist in south Georgia through at least the end of June with only the chance of slight improvement.
