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