Waiting on Maturity.
9-3-24
We are on the verge of significant visual changes in our cotton crop that have already started to show up in the earliest fields that did not stall out during the drought. The basis for these changes is the maturity of our crop as well as this beautiful weather. The forecast indicates a warming trend beginning now into next week and heading back to 90 degrees, only with much lower humidity than we have experienced in quite a while. If we don’t get any more rain until labor day, it might even seem like we are dry again. This is going to allow these mature bolls to start opening in fields that were planted early, and the early varieties are going to dramatically change into those fall colors that we expect in cut out cotton. I have already seen a boll or two open in April planted cotton. The concerns of expanding Target spot and hardlock will not disappear but will be of much lower concern with the weather forecast, particularly if we are not even getting dew in the morning. Just keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer for these storms to stay out in the ocean for the next several months. Looks like next week will be a good week to take a vacation… I think I will.
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