{"id":7489,"date":"2016-06-24T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:05:46","slug":"poor-weather-hurt-cotton-establishment-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/poor-weather-hurt-cotton-establishment-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor weather hurt cotton establishment in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Haire of the <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> reported this week that periods of dry weather punctuated by downpours led to problems with establishment of cotton around the state. \u00a0He quoted Jared Whitaker, UGA Cotton Specialist, as saying\u00a0\u201cThe planting window was very dry during most of the period but interrupted with big rainfall events. With dry conditions, cotton is often \u2018dusted in\u2019 or planted very shallow in very dry soil. This practice can work very well, but is often not best practice when planting.\u00a0 First, in this case it has to rain to germinate seed, and rainfall patterns following dusting in cotton are critical to getting a stand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain after planting drove the seeds deeper and formed a crust on the soil that was difficult for the new seedlings to push through. \u00a0You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/cotton\/if-you-got-bad-cotton-stand-you-re-not-alone-and-here-s-why?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20160623_SEFP-01_1000&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_1_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=10279&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=4074804be3e84ce6865464c885c44d35\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7490\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-230x300.png\" alt=\"Source: Ashish Wankhade, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-106x138.png 106w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant.png 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ashish Wankhade, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press reported this week that periods of dry weather punctuated by downpours led to problems with establishment of cotton around the state. \u00a0He quoted Jared Whitaker, UGA Cotton Specialist, as saying\u00a0\u201cThe planting window was very dry during most of the period but interrupted with big rainfall events. With dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7491,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions\/7491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}