Darren Hudson is the Larry Combest Endowed Chair and director of the International Center for Agricultural Competitiveness at Texas Tech University and follows the cotton market closely.

A dust storm tore through the southern plains, unlike anything most area farmers had ever seen. “We had 90 mile an hour winds here,” says Brad Heffington, a farmer in Littlefield, Texas.

My granddad heard that they were giving land away in the Panhandle of Oklahoma and he’d originally come from Alabama to Dublin, Texas ... of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that ...

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ... stretching in a 100-mile wide zone from Canada to northern Texas, to protect the land from erosion.