'Dance With The One That Brung Ya'
"In the mid-1980s, I visited a high production region of the United States to see what three-bale cotton looked like at harvest," Kitten says. "At the time, good cotton yields in the Texas High Plains were in the two-bales-per-acre range. Times have changed.
"Now, in good years, our producers are making yields I would not have thought possible back then," he adds. "Three-bale yields are not so uncommon these days, and some good irrigated fields top four bales per acre. This is a testament to the innovativeness of our producers, superior seed genetics and technology and more efficient irrigation systems."
For the past couple of years, overall U.S. cotton acres have dropped for various reasons, such as price, grain plantings and water availability just to name a few. However, talk on the turnrow indicates that cotton acres will be back up in 2010.
source : cottonfarming
"In the mid-1980s, I visited a high production region of the United States to see what three-bale cotton looked like at harvest," Kitten says. "At the time, good cotton yields in the Texas High Plains were in the two-bales-per-acre range. Times have changed.
"Now, in good years, our producers are making yields I would not have thought possible back then," he adds. "Three-bale yields are not so uncommon these days, and some good irrigated fields top four bales per acre. This is a testament to the innovativeness of our producers, superior seed genetics and technology and more efficient irrigation systems."
For the past couple of years, overall U.S. cotton acres have dropped for various reasons, such as price, grain plantings and water availability just to name a few. However, talk on the turnrow indicates that cotton acres will be back up in 2010.
source : cottonfarming
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