If summer heat and drought were jeopardizing crops in the Midwest, would a climate change obsessed media be having a field day (pun intended) reporting the news whilst connecting it to manmade global warming?

Yet, further south in Texas, there's a crop very important to Americans in tremendous danger that has gotten almost no attention.

Brad Heffington has farmed cotton in West Texas for nearly two decades but he and other producers in the world's largest growing patch say this year has been odd.

The AP issued its first version of this article around 5AM EST Thursday. Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches identified almost no print coverage.

It appears the potential for weather related crop damage is only newsworthy in America if it can be reported as evidence of anthropogenic global warming.