While heavy rains created some localized flooding issues this past week, the severe drought during the past year is continuing to have a major impact here and across the entire area.The scale of the loss is becoming somewhat clearer after the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) released it certified acreage report on Aug. 22.A summary put together by Shawn Wade with Plains Cotton Growers shows more than 55 percent of the High Plains farmland planted with cotton this past spring has already officially been “failed out,” or abandoned.While that percentage is expected to continue climbing as additional failed acreage is ...