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The Challenge- Finish a Potentially Good Looking 2010 Oklahoma Cotton Crop

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:35:13 CDT

The Challenge- Finish a Potentially Good Looking 2010 Oklahoma Cotton Crop Several important factors affect the 2010 cotton crop. Some are on the plus side and some are on the minus side, but most people in the know will tell you the plus side outweighs the minuses a lot.


For instance, due to a large international demand for cotton fiber, cotton prices are the highest they have been in a long time. Reports state 2009 old crop cotton sold for 85 cents per pound last week.


Good prices, plenty of acres planted and excellent yield prospects for irrigated cotton make up the good news in this final stage of the 2010 crop maturing.


On the minus side, dryland cotton, where it did not rain, has been hurt by hot,dry weather. But where it did rain, dryland cotton has good prospects.


A good example of dryland cotton prospects comes from Craig Bolton, manager of the Tri-County Gin east of Chattanooga, Ok., in Tillman County. Anticipating top prices, Bolton's farmer clients planted a lot of dryland cotton, approximately 30,000 acres. After planting, wet weather helped the crop to grow well, but when July came along, Bolton said, heat stress lowered their expectations for a top crop. "We hope we will see three-quarter bale cotton to the acre this fall," he said. "Earlier, when we realized there had been 30,000 acres planted around here and with the good growing conditions, we were hoping for 30,000 bales. Now, I think we will gin around 20,000 bales." Bolton stresses with good prices and plenty of acres to harvest, 2010 will still be a good year for his cotton growers.


Farther north at the Carnegie, Ok., Farmers Coop Gin in Caddo County, gin manager Jeannie Hileman sees an excellent crop of irrigated cotton developing for her customers. "We will see a lot of two and three bale cotton come out of the irrigated fields," she said. "There may even some four bale irrigated cotton harvested. We had several farmers with yields of four bales to the acre from irrigated cotton last year." Jeannie is the person who sold 2009 cotton for 85 cents per pound last week. She believes good prices will hold for the 2010 crop. Dryland cotton really looks good, if there was enough rain to supply moisture, she said. In those areas that remained dry, yields will be less this year than expected this year, she said. "There could be some two bale dryland cotton where there was plenty of rain," she said.   


Lynn Scalf, manager of the Farmers Cooperative Gin at Martha, Ok., in Jackson County gins mostly irrigated cotton from the federal irrigation district there; also receiving dryland cotton from as far north as Elk City, Ok., area, he said.
"Eighty to 85 percent of the cotton we gin here is irrigated," he said. "The irrigated crop really looks good and we will see some three bale plus yields from those fields. Up north, in the Elk City area, I understand there is dryland cotton which received some timely rains and that crop does look good." Scalf says it is important now to have a warm, dry fall to let the cotton crop mature and to be able to do a timely job of harvesting.


To keep up with the latest on the cotton crop in Oklahoma, as well as southern Kansas and North Texas- click here for the NTOK website.


Our thanks to Vic Schoonover for his help in providing this 2010 Cotton Crop update.



   

 

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