Source: Brad Haire, FARM PROGRESS, 9/18/19


Southeast cotton growers eyed topping last year’s hurricane-ravaged crop, with one state on a track to match a 70-year record. It’s become a bedeviling question over the last few years, though: How much Southeast cotton will tropical storms take? “We've lost in Georgia a significant amount of money in the past three years due to hurricanes, and that's not something we typically deal with in cotton. But you know, if it happens three years in a row, who's to think it won't happen a fourth year,” said Jared Whitaker, University of Georgia Extension cotton agronomist, Sept. 4 at the UGA Cotton and Peanut Research Field Day.

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