Commercial pilot season delivered exceptional yield. Corteva aims to significantly expand acres across the northern Mid-South for the 2024-2025.
The Texas cotton crop can only be described as a mixed bag, with harvest wrapping up in the southern parts to bolls just setting in the northernmost parts – and sometimes the mixture depends on the moisture.
There appears to be a pretty good cotton crop out there. But heavy plant bug pressure and whitefly infestations are causing problems in the lower Southeast, while growers still need to watch aphids, Lygus, and stink bugs in west Texas.