Old cotton ground now carries a broader farm mix

Cotton once defined Hunt County so strongly that Texas A&M AgriLife describes the county as an old cotton capital. Greenville's inland compress and rail lines were built around that trade, and the crop still belongs in the local story.

The present farm mix is broader. AgriLife lists beef cattle, hay and forage, nursery and horticulture, cotton, wheat, and grain sorghum among the county's main enterprises. A pasture beside an old cotton road is not a sign that farming disappeared. It is the same blackland economy learning to carry more than one crop.