We may have picked 20% of this crop down here. This was some late April and early May plantings, before the big May rains. That has been some very, very good cotton. Of course with peanut harvest lagging since that crop had some delayed plantings as well, our people got the best fields defoliated and picked before the last two rains through here.

That late stuff was looking very, very good as well, BUT LATE! We have had about three rainy spells over the last three weeks, plus a light frost last Tuesday. That has not been good on this crop.

To really finish this crop, we were going to need September weather to extend deep, deep into October this year, and it has not, at least temperature speaking. Unlike most Octobers, thought, it has not been dry. That is a double whammy on this late crop. Further, the decreasing amount of daylight hours cuts back on the time we can harvest in any given week, especially peanuts. With our typical humidity and temperatures, we have heavy dew and sometimes fog that keep us from firing up harvesters until 1 p.m. some days, and usually by one hour past sunset we have to shut down.

This farming sure is an interesting buiness!