Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 9/28/18

Hurricane Florence brought historic rainfall to cotton fields across the eastern Carolinas, and other parts of the Southeast have experienced excessive rainfall, too, as harvest begins. Florence’s magnitude is extreme but wet conditions cause quality and yield losses to some growers somewhere each year. The best remedy for wet cotton fields is a long period of dry weather, and harvesttime months in the Southeast are typically the region's driest, but that doesn’t always happen.

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