In early 2022, commodity prices are looking up, but farmer optimism hasn’t quite followed.Uncertainty instead reigns across Texas agriculture as farmers and ranchers worry the higher prices won’t stick around long enough to offset soaring input costs for the 2022 crop year.South PlainsThe region known as the South Plains is the largest cotton-growing area in the world. But worsening drought has cotton farmers concerned as they prepare to sow their crops in the dusty fields.For Crosby County Farm Bureau (CFB) board member Steven Walker, the drought is an old foe paired with new worries.“I’m feeling a little anxious. We aren’t ...