Expected Conditions for Defoliation at Franklin Virginia 9-24-2018 Well here we go again. Looks like the same story just another day. Some brief showersl possible through Thursday with very little total rainfall. Wednesday will be the most sunshine of the week, but evening rainfall is still in the picture for Wednesday. daily accumilation will be measured in the 100th's for most of the region. Overall, it means delays more than damage. We have not been able to defoliate the fields that are ready. Defoliation recipes that have gone on in the sunny period of last week are working well. The next good period for defoliation is expected to begin Friday and again, will last about 4 days. After that, another 4 day spell of cloudy warm weather with low rainfall is expected. Look at the weather for Wednesday for any improvement that could offer a reasonable opportunity as well. Expecting above normal temperature for October. Plan A Continue with defoliation on Friday of this week for fields that can be harvested in a timely manner. There is a concern for regrowth and getting those new juvinelle green leaves off and Dropp is the best tool to accomplish these challenges.
Date
Day
temp
Conditions
forecast
9-24 & 25
Monday & Tues
78/66
Brief rain - 0.2"
Marginal to Fair
9-26
Wednesday
84/69
some sun
Maybe
9-27
Thursday
84/67
0.3"
Poor
9-28
Friday
81/63
Cloudy
improving
9-29 to 10/1
Saturday to Monday
79/59
sun & warm
Excellent
Futures
@CT - COTTON #2 - ICEFU
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
Close
Time
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Oct 18
79.10
78.73
Dec 18
78.58
79.00
78.10
78.33
-0.25
78.58
04:14A
Mar 19
78.99
79.37
78.53
78.79
-0.17
78.96
04:14A
May 19
79.62
79.95
79.18
79.28
-0.31
79.59
04:14A
Jul 19
80.20
80.53
79.79
80.00
-0.18
80.18
04:14A
Oct 19
83.65
76.73
Dec 19
76.18
76.21
75.95
76.15
-0.03
76.18
03:19A
Mar 20
77.41
76.96
@S - SOYBEANS - CBOT
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
Close
Time
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Nov 18
841'2
846'2
837'2
845'2
4'2
841'0
04:14A
Jan 19
855'2
860'0
851'4
859'4
4'2
855'2
04:14A
Mar 19
868'0
873'4
864'6
873'4
5'0
868'4
04:14A
May 19
882'0
886'6
878'4
886'2
4'2
882'0
04:14A
Jul 19
892'4
897'6
889'2
897'0
4'2
892'6
04:14A
@W - WHEAT - CBOT
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
Close
Time
More
Dec 18
525'2
525'6
520'0
523'0
-4'0
527'0
04:14A
Mar 19
544'4
544'4
539'0
541'4
-4'0
545'4
04:14A
May 19
556'6
556'6
551'4
553'0
-4'2
557'2
04:14A
@C - CORN - CBOT
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
Close
Time
More
Dec 18
360'2
360'6
357'4
360'2
-0'2
360'4
04:14A
Mar 19
372'2
372'4
369'6
372'2
-0'2
372'4
04:14A
May 19
380'0
380'2
377'2
379'6
-0'4
380'2
04:14A
Jul 19
385'2
385'6
382'6
385'2
-0'4
385'6
04:14A
Sep 19
389'4
389'4
387'0
388'6
-1'2
390'0
04:14A
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Record Heat Projected to carry into October 9-24-18 Virginia is at 2400 DD-60’s at the beginning of this last week of September. By October 1st, we will pass 2500 total cotton heat units which will be close to a tie for the 2010 record which was a drought. Even in 2010, October was cool. We’ve never had this much heat in a good rainfall year. It looks like October will be the new September, getting an early frost means we might see some ice on the hot tub covers by Halloween, and Virginia might be the new Georgia. In all seriousness, we probably need to be making decisions based on this type of normal rather than focusing on what made sense back in the day. If the weather had cooperated with us, we could have defoliated 40% of the cotton, and we would have started picking last week. Because of weather delays and having to put a higher priority on getting corn out and picking peanuts, we have only defoliated about 5 to 10% and it will be next week before we start picking. Hopefully, beginning the end of this week, we will be able to make a big dent in this crop to get a solid amount of cotton defoliated. October is looking warm and relatively humid which will put pressure on regrowth and using strategies that focus on harvest timing along with cotton maturity.
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