Cotton Delivers
It Was Still A Wild Ride During '09 Season
Tommy Horton
"There was a lot of hardlock and shattered bolls the farther south you traveled in the Mississippi Delta," he says. "The northern Delta seemed to handle the rain a bit better, but everybody was affected."
Robertson says the lesson that farmers can learn from this year's torrential rainfall is the importance of earliness in crop management. However, he points out that planting early doesn't always equate to harvesting early.
"It's all about management techniques and making the right decision at the right time," he says. "Good management goes hand-in-hand with weather conditions."
source : cottonfarming
It Was Still A Wild Ride During '09 Season
Tommy Horton
"There was a lot of hardlock and shattered bolls the farther south you traveled in the Mississippi Delta," he says. "The northern Delta seemed to handle the rain a bit better, but everybody was affected."
Robertson says the lesson that farmers can learn from this year's torrential rainfall is the importance of earliness in crop management. However, he points out that planting early doesn't always equate to harvesting early.
"It's all about management techniques and making the right decision at the right time," he says. "Good management goes hand-in-hand with weather conditions."
source : cottonfarming
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