Cotton Planting Forcast (updated 4-30 showing a bump up in temperatures) including managment strategies
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This Week Shaping Up to 'Perhaps' be the Hottest of the Whole Planting Season 4-30-25 This week may be the hottest week (upper 80's) of our planting season. Hey, I know it’s all about the weather forecast, but if you look at the long-term picture, there are only about 8 days in the low 80's for the whole month of May. This low 80's streak of warm days will be around May 20th. The good news is that the overnight lows are going to be higher than average. For that reason, even with the milder temperatures that are expected to begin next week, we can still be hopeful about relatively healthy cotton seedlings. Quite frankly, it will be like a breath of fresh air if we dodge all the cold 40-degree nights that brings us concerns. This earliest cotton that is getting planted now is going to crack in 5 days, and maybe faster, so it will be imperative that you keep your preemergence herbicide sprayer close to the planters. It would be a shame to have these vigorous fast emerging cotton plants to get dinged up because they were cracking the ground when the sprayer came by. Also, with a pretty good chance of rainfall this weekend, that gives another incentive to spray quickly behind planting so that the herbicide gets activated. This is particularly important with a low solubility herbicide like Brake, but even the Reflex and Cotoran need this rain to do their job. Remember, Commonweathgin.com for all your cotton questions.
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