HUSA Jun 18 2026 - Slick Sanders

Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. David had just asked Slick about how things turned out.   "This is probably the best year we've had in several years."   So that's for cotton or for everything?   "Well everything's been pretty good. I mean as a whole even the dryland milo made a little bit. Irrigated milo was good and a lot of these farmers they're starting to plant, keep them stubble, keep the stalks, the milo stalks and they spray it and keep it clean and those hold moisture if we get any snow if we do. And then they'll plant cotton in that stubble just like we do cutting wheat. We leave stubble and they'll plant cotton in that stubble. That cotton is protected from the weather and it keeps the ground from blowing. But they're finding that planting cotton in milo stalks they're getting two or three hundred pounds more lint by doing that. And I don't know why the reason other than the protection and maybe something to do with all the nodules and the roots of the milo keeps the ground a little softer. I don't I don't know but there's there's some benefits and they're seeing it and they're starting to do that. But when you plant that milo in a cover crop like that I mean the cotton when it's little it needs protection from the weather and the wind and it tries to grow really fast to get to the top of that cover crop so it can get to the Sun. So it speeds up the growing process of the cotton."   That's interesting.   "In places where they don't grow wheat much they can grow milo and use that for cover."   Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.