The harvest of cotton and other Southeastern crops is moving quickly. Some areas have been hit by rains which dampened the cotton, reducing quality and slowing the cotton picking. However, as this story from the Southeast Farm Press makes clear, the weather in North Carolina really cooperated with growers this year, leading to record-setting yields in some dryland fields. Conditions were best in the northeastern corner of the state. Wet conditions early in the season and good numbers of heat units helped the cotton develop while dry and sunny conditions later in the year helped keep quality high.
