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Rains and will not produce a high yield

Rains and will not produce a high yield

Down the road, Kenny Gully said about 45 percent of his crop is harvested at the Eola farm. “Our dryland cotton is making about one bale per acre,” he said. “But my best cotton is the irrigated fields, and I believe they could have a yield of 2 bales or better per acre when weather allows us to harvest.”

However, cotton on dryland fields — crops that rely solely on rainfall — is not equal this season. Jake Powell, who farms in the Vancourt area, said his crop missed midsummer rains and will not produce a high yield.

On my rounds in recent weeks I have observed some of the best-looking cotton in Runnels County around Miles and between Rowena and Olfen.

Across the 12-county Southern Rolling Plains region, early cotton harvest yields are running as high as two bales-plus on dryland, and some irrigated could yield four bales per acre, Randall Conner said.

Conner, of Winters, executive director of Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association, said from 25 to 30 percent of the 2014 crop has been harvested. “It was moving along pretty fast until the rains came with the latest cold front. So everything will stop this week until sunshine comes back.”

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