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One of my friends, who owns cotton harvesting equipment down here was telling me the other day that of the farmland he contracts to harvest, over half of the farmland is a bust this year as far as cotton goes.

He just helped his son buy a new cotton picker too, to the tune of about $750k.

Drought.

How are crops looking where you guys are?

No cotton here, but the dry weather has hurt the corn and beans. I'll be down in cotton country, the Reelfoot Lake are in NW Tennessee in a few weeks and I'll let you know what I see.

Good Barry, timely rains, Praise the Lord.

James, as to cotton, my wife, and I drove through some of Texas on our honeymoon trip.

I was out picking up cotton bowls in the field.

Have a Great trip James!

Richard, I have stopped at a cotton field and done the same thing. Wife made some decorations out of them. Cotton has been grown here where I live many years ago, mostly just experimental. We're about 2 hours north, and 2 hours east of cotton country. Cotton is grown in extreme Western Kentucky, near the New Madrid bend on the Mississippi River.

I'm plumb tuckered out; Let's talk in the morning.

Richard.

Everything's burned up here, cattle guys feeding what little hay they got put up already, when usually its October or later.

As to cotton-

Georgia is only behind Texas in cotton production. Cotton crop looks good around here.
If we'd known this, we'd picked our own cotton.

Central Texas dry land looks ok

I ran across this thread by chance. The fields in SE Virginia are full of cotton plants right now. To me, they look good. Some fields have soy beans, and theres a lot of corn. But hard not to notice all the cotton plants.

No more cotton in these parts.

Pine trees took the place of cotton.


The small town in grew up in had a gin.

I can remember when i was little, when it was time, there would be loaded cotton trailers parked all over town waiting..

Same here. Every small town had a gin, the last one I remember closed about 25 years ago.

I went through central Texas a few weeks ago, cotton looked good, they were harvesting corn also.

Oldest son told me tonight that some cotton up in Waco area already sprayed with defoliant