Source: Brad Haire, FARM PROGRESS, 1/15/21


Throughout the Southeast gins finish ginning good cotton, but one thing hindered some locations. It got worse as harvest progressed. Last fall, we started following the problem when sample results from the USDA classing office in Georgia showed unusually high levels of seed coat fragments. We expected to see more seed fragments than typical in 2020, but the extent of them along the Southeastern gulf coast startled.

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