Cotton Yields Shouldn’t Have Been This Good

From: Southeast Farm Press

“Everyone was shocked at how good their cotton crop was. Overall, I am going to average 2.6 bales per acre with only 360 irrigated acres out of my 1,325 acres of cotton. My dry land cotton averaged 900-1,000 pounds per acre but my irrigated cotton averaged 3.4 bales per acre,” said the Calhoun County, Ala., farmer

Cherokee County, Ala., grower Nick McMichen said, “We are fortunate and blessed to have this good a cotton crop. I can’t believe where it came from. My irrigated cotton was outstanding-3.5 bales per acre and it looks like my overall yield is going to be close to 1,400 pounds per acre. Cotton outperformed all my other crops hands down. My dry land soybeans averaged 28 bushels per acre and dry land corn between 90-100 bushels per acre.”