{"id":115,"date":"2018-06-19T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/?p=115"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:48:25","slug":"cotton-planting-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/2018\/06\/cotton-planting-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Planting Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Considerations for the Remainder of the Planting Season<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Mark Freeman) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This spring has been especially challenging for cotton planting in many parts of<br \/>\nthe state. Dry weather early in the planting window followed by continual rainfall in the<br \/>\nsecond half of May have delayed planting of over one third of the 2018 crop into June.<br \/>\nAlthough yields tend to decreases as we move into June, there is still potential for strong,<br \/>\nprofitable yields. Listed below are some tips for managing a late planted crop.<\/p>\n<p>1. Consider increasing seeding rates. In late planting situations we want to shoot for a<br \/>\nfinal plant stand of at least 2 plants\/ft, so adjust seeding rates to aim for this desired plant<br \/>\npopulation.<\/p>\n<p>2. Decrease any stresses. If irrigation is available, irrigate to promote stand establishment,<br \/>\nenhance fruit retention, and eliminate stress during periods of dry weather.<\/p>\n<p>3. PGR\u2019s. Mepiquat products should be applied to prevent excessive vegetative growth,<br \/>\ndecrease boll rot, and enhance fruit retention of lower position bolls which promotes<br \/>\ncrop earliness.<\/p>\n<p>4. Varieties. Varieties should be chosen on overall yield potential not maturity<br \/>\ncharacteristics.<\/p>\n<p>5. Fertility. Decrease N rates by 25%-30% to limit excessive vegetative growth. This should<br \/>\nbe done with at-plant N and sidedress N.<br \/>\nFor additional information regarding management of late planted cotton, please refer to the<br \/>\nfollowing article: https:\/\/www.ugacotton.com\/2018\/05\/when-it-rains-it-pours-managinglate-planting-dates-in-georgia-during-2018\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considerations for the Remainder of the Planting Season (Mark Freeman) This spring has been especially challenging for cotton planting in many parts of the state. Dry weather early in the planting window followed by continual rainfall in the second half of May have delayed planting of over one third of the 2018 crop into June. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}