Farmers in the Texas South Plains have a different challenge this year—too much rain. After years of devastating drought, rain started falling in May, leading to flooded fields and to one of the wettest Mays on record for the area.Farmers reported between three and 15 inches of rain.That significantly impacted their ability to plant cotton, leaving some to not plant at all and others to plant when and as they could.“It’s slowed us down. Our big rain was on the end of May, but we’d had several showers for the 10 days prior to that,” Ricky Yantis, who farms in ...