Like all of our dry land crops cotton suffered this summer.\u00a0 Because of this there are more than a few fields without much to harvest.\u00a0 Boll openers, defoliants and regrowth control chemicals are not that expensive but if you apply\u00a0them\u00a0improperly it can be costly.<\/p>\n
The biggest consideration for this time of year is really not what products to use, but how to get the most out of them.\u00a0 I know that when I say it I will get a bunch of boos from the crowd, but we really need to look at the amount of water we put out to improve coverage.\u00a0 Jared Whitaker, UGA Cotton Agronomists, says that water volume plays as big a role as products and rates.\u00a0 I would suggest bumping water volume up\u00a0close to 20 gallons per acre.<\/p>\n
Recent rains are not going to help us out either.\u00a0 Fields that once were cutting out have begun to regrow now that we have a little soil moisture.\u00a0 Obviously we can’t\u00a0count on\u00a0any of this growth\u00a0helping us at all.\u00a0 All it has done is give us more to cover and try to control.<\/p>\n
So spend a little more time refilling the sprayer and do a better job with cotton defoliation the first time through the field.\u00a0\u00a0Be timely with the pickers and\u00a0avoid having to ask yourself is it worth spraying again to pick a clean crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boll openers, defoliants and regrowth control chemicals are not that expensive but if you apply them\u00a0improperly\u00a0it can be costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}