Source: Ron Smith, FARM PROGRESS, 8/7/19


The extensive number of prevented planting acres and fields still under water from spring and early summer rains caught the attention of 11 Southeast cotton farmers during the Producer Information Exchange tour of the Mid-South. The tour, sponsored by the National Cotton Council and supported by a grant from Bayer, wound its way from the Missouri Boot Hill into northeast Arkansas and west Tennessee. “I’ve heard and read about the prevented planting acreage and flooding,” said Tommy Hargrave, Garysburg, N.C.

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