Cotton crop

PopinJohn

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One of my customers from western Tennessee called this morning,
And said the cotton crops in the fields he has seen as a surveyor
are a virtual snow bank of white, so dense looking down the rows
that you can?t see the ground in the middles. He is predicting three
bales to the acre for this year?s crop. Said farmers are using modern
technology and it is working. He works for boll weevil eradication
And is speaking for what he has seen in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
 
Louisiana has been officially weevil free since 2012, I thought all the southern states were, only place I ever saw 3 bale cotton was California. Those farmers in Tennessee ought to make good money this year as the price has held up.
 
I West Tx its going to be poor. Didn't get rain or planted wrong time. Some has already been disastered and plowed down for wheat.
 
Good management skills but we also had the wettest June ever on record here in West Tennessee , my corn crop average was at least 20 bu per acre better than anything I had ever had in 44 years. No substitute for good weather on a crop.
 
The view from the side of the field, where you cannot see the rows... looks like a bean field that's been snowed on (which is a bad thing).

Looks like I need to travel south during cotton harvest some day. :)
 
Hill County Texas. 60 miles south of Dallas. Phone doesn't do it justice.
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(quoted from post at 21:19:02 10/08/19) Here you go SweetFeet.
This google image search of cotton fields will give you an idea of what the fields look like as well as a picture of a combine.
Why would you combine cotton????
 
We are looking at possibly the best over all cotton crop there has been in north Alabama and southern middle Tennessee. About a third of the crop has been picked so far. I know of two farms that are going to average 4 bale/acre. That doesn't happen here. I've attached a picture of a field we were in last week taking pictures with our daughter. This is not one of the 4 bale fields but still a very good crop for the soil its on. This is about a mile north of the Tennessee/ Alabama line.
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