How much Should we Plant Early?
4-28-25
This time of year is one of our biggest pushes in Agriculture and perhaps second only to the harvest season. All hands are on deck, so to speak, as we never know what is right around the corner in terms of equipment repairs, weather changes, or even personal family situations. It’s a pretty sure bet that we will finish out April with summer like temperatures and possibly a scattered shower or storm here or there. It’s still plenty early, but no doubt that cotton and peanut planters are tuning up to make a big dent in this planting job over the next seven days. If things were perfectly easy to plan for, then the magic planting dates by the Calander would put us planting about half of our cotton between May 10th and May 20th. That would make our goal to only plant about 25% of our acreage in this early window and then the other 25% in the late window. Some years it can pay off hitting a higher percentage early. I just hope we are not trying to finish by the middle of May, because some years, the best cotton is in the second half of May.
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