Cotton Planting Condtions for Franklin, VA Last Updated 4-25-18 @ 10:50 am.
The weather forecast shows warmer temperatures for the end of this week but cooler temperatures for Sunday and Monday. A Green light for planting is not expected until May 1st.
Date
Day
High
Low
Rain
Planting
4-25 & 26
Wed & Thurs
71-74
53-55
.15
Marginal
4-27
Friday
76
50
.1
Poor
4-28
Saturday
76
47
Poor
4-29
Sunday
66
40
Chilling
4-30
Monday
69
38
Chilling
5-1
Tuesday
77
53
Good
Futures
@CT - COTTON #2 - ICEFU
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
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Time
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May 18
83.17
84.57
82.89
84.52
2.50
84.76s
01:32P
Jul 18
81.52
84.54
81.52
83.83
2.43
83.94s
01:32P
Oct 18
79.21
1.75
80.89s
01:32P
Dec 18
77.84
79.06
77.59
78.80
1.40
78.99s
01:32P
Mar 19
77.78
78.97
77.78
78.71
1.23
78.94s
01:32P
May 19
78.48
78.90
78.25
78.90
1.00
78.88s
01:32P
Jul 19
78.52
78.82
78.52
78.82
0.91
78.72s
01:32P
@S - SOYBEANS - CBOT
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
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Time
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May 18
1022'2
1033'2
1020'4
1026'2
5'2
1027'4s
03:26P
Jul 18
1033'4
1045'0
1032'0
1038'0
5'2
1039'2s
03:11P
Aug 18
1036'0
1046'6
1034'4
1040'0
5'4
1041'4s
01:30P
@W - WHEAT - CBOT
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
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Time
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May 18
473'0
488'4
472'2
485'6
13'6
486'2s
03:52P
Jul 18
485'2
501'4
484'4
498'4
14'6
499'0s
03:13P
Sep 18
503'0
518'0
502'0
515'0
13'4
515'2s
01:30P
@C - CORN - CBOT
Month
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High
Low
Last
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May 18
381'0
387'2
380'4
385'4
5'2
386'4s
03:57P
Jul 18
390'0
396'4
389'4
395'0
5'6
395'6s
03:54P
Sep 18
397'0
403'4
396'6
402'0
5'6
403'0s
03:51P
My Custom Markets
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Johnny's Blog
Is History a good Predictor? April 23, 2018 It may only be trivia and something to talk about on a rainy day, but it is very interesting to look back at recent history as a basis for understanding. I would speculate that what worked best last year is one of the biggest factors used for deciding on what to do this year. Human nature makes us look for patterns that will predict what things will come, and for us agricultural producer types, it applies to marketing, timing of production chores, and even makes us pay attention to when the full moon occurs. An area in particular we look at is the temperatures in the spring. Most recently, last year we had the same temperatures on April 24 that we are having this year, only last year, it had warmed up to the 90’s by the last few days of April. This year, we are barely going to see 70 degrees during the end of April with some mid-40 night temps, but May is bringing some nice and hopefully lasting warm weather. After this rain, many will either finish corn or switch the acres to cotton for a strong start of planting cotton and peanuts early next week. Peanuts are a little more forgiving of cool weather and less forgiving of late harvest, plus, cotton probably has a better history with late planting with some varieties. So Peanuts may get some priority on the front side. On the other hand, making additional peanuts over and above the contracted pounds is not as attractive as cotton. There could be some incentive here to maximize production on fewer acres of peanuts that match up closer to realistic yield expectations if the contract is for pounds and not acres… just thinking.
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