But nearby Terry and Dawson County also are coming along big in peanuts nowadays. Beaty attended recent peanut meetings in that High Plains region. This peanut interest by and shift to far West Texas is not a flash in the pan. So land is not a limitation. There's also a world of cotton on the High Plains.
Peanuts can fit as a rotation crop with cotton there.
The growers in that region of Texas also have irrigation. They will find peanuts do require a lot more water than their traditional cotton. In that respect, De Leon and the rest of this Central Texas area have a little better edge. But Comanche County area just doesn't have enough water for total irrigation of peanut acreage. That's something they've achieved several times.