From Jassids to Gins: Yield, Defoliation, and Smart Soil Moves in Georgia Cotton

Yields are coming in hot and the lessons are even hotter. We walk the rows with real numbers—1,200 to 1,400 pounds in several spots, three-bale reports on tough ground—and dig into what actually moved the needle: on-time jassid control, patient defoliation, smart irrigation cutoff, and stalk destruction that shuts down the green bridge. From the picker seat to the lab bench, we connect field-edge efficacy trials with practical harvest decisions you can make this week.

We bring the full team perspective together—entomology, agronomy, and on-farm trial work—to explain why a seven-to-ten-day delay on jassid sprays cost yield, how red leaves can still take defoliants if they’re not crunchy, and where fertility turned stress into survival rather than collapse. You’ll hear why irrigated variety trials in Tifton taught more than any spreadsheet, how late-June cotton has clearly cut out, and why strategic tillage—one targeted pass instead of three—can save money without sacrificing soil health. With a warm weather window ahead, most defoliation programs should perform cleanly, and classing results already show promising color and premiums.

We also map the finish-line moves: mow low or pull stalks to starve pests before winter, document where potash fell short, and share acres-treated estimates with your county agent so we can quantify the jassid footprint and sharpen recommendations for 2025. Harvest quality looks within reach if we stick the landing. If this conversation helps you plan your next pass or avoid an unnecessary one, share it with a neighbor, subscribe for updates, and leave a review with your top harvest question—we’ll tackle it on the next show.

Transcript

Harvest Outlook without USDA Report

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Bringing you all things cotton production and pest management. This is the Talkin' Cotton Podcast with the University of Georgia cotton team. Let's get into the whys of putting on, throwing off, and cutting out. Okay, welcome to this episode of Talking Cotton. It is October the 8th, and normally we uh give a little update on the crop progress and such, but I pulled up the uh USDA website and there's this nice little message on there about the government being shut down and uh who has shut it down in particular. I'm not gonna read it, but if you want to chuckle today, it's a pretty funny little message that they have on the USDA website. So they didn't put out the crop progress report, but hey, there's a bunch of open cotton out there, and people are starting to pick some. And gins are starting to gin some. We're actually starting to get a few numbers around. I texted with uh Bill Starr earlier this week, and Dr. Roberts, he said that up there he's hearing 12 to 1400 pounds. That's good. It's good cotton. Good cotton. Need need more, need more. But 12 to 1400 pounds is good cotton. So good start. It sounds like things are going good out there, but you know, we're just getting started. We got us a long way to go. So with us today, we got Sarah.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Good morning, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Hey, Sarah. And then Dr. Roberts is with us for the first time in six weeks, it feels like. He's been on vacation. He deserved one with all the Jats and stuff. Wasn't on vacation. How are you doing, Dr. Roberts? Working for the people. Working for the people. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

So, all right, you had the bull weevil meeting. I had a bull weevil meeting, then I met with a group of entomologists from the southeast and mid-south. So had a good meeting there. Always try to learn from my colleagues in other states. Yep. Yep. That's always valuable.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Always valuable. But yeah, been working for the people. Man of the people. So, and then Dr. Henry Sentim. Henry, what's what's the word, man? Hello. Yeah. So everything looks good.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Um, everything looks good.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Everything looks real good. That stuff we picked, what was it, a couple weeks ago? That was good cotton. Good cotton. Good cotton on terrible land. Henry helped us. I'm I'm convinced of that. We uh we were talking about it before the podcast got started. We always talk about the Boeing farm and how sorry that land is, but we there was good cotton out there this time. The best we've made probably ever. Ever. And I mean, Dr. Roberts always jokes with me. There was one time he had two trials next to each other, and they both averaged the exact same thing. And I told him he was full of it. But the average was thirteen hundred and thirty-three pounds in both of those trials. And I think it was a year later that the average was thirteen thirty-one.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Well, that's still good cotton, but uh not for what would you spend on. No, we've done better though. We've done better listening to Henry.

Variety Trials and Picker-Seat Lessons

SPEAKER_02 3:10

Yeah, so we uh but that's what I was getting at was we always joked that the yield potential of that place was thirteen hundred and thirty-three pounds. It's up, it's up. So this year we made I think we made three bail out there. Cross the board. Cross the board. And so and a lot of that was listening to Henry, and that's a unique situation, right? I mean, we we don't want everybody to do what we're doing at the Boeing farm, but sometimes you do what you gotta do. Well, we have to make crop so we can have yields that are meaningful, meaningful, and uh there was an extension agronomist used to say if we can't make three bells, then why are we even talking to people? That's right. I mean it gives validity to the data. That's right. So we gotta know what we're doing, right? So that we can show data to everybody else.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Well, we're we're getting a little more economical with cover crops, got a big pile of chicken litter out there right now, waiting for the peanuts to get off and uh and the rest of the cotton to get off. And the rest of the cotton. Uh but we're moving forward. Yeah. Um we're gonna make it work.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

Yep, that's right. More economically. Yeah, yeah, hopefully. So um, let's see, what else? We've picked the pivot here in the last week, and I mean some of that stuff, especially on the conservation side, was good. That was that was sixteen, seventeen hundred pounds in some, and then up to up to four bale in some spots, just depending on variety and stuff like that. So we're it's looking pretty good around here. We can we got us a little ways to go too. So hey, pick the OVTs irrigated trial, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Out of the Gibbs farm in Tifton. Uh good cotton. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Um probably the best they've been in a I mean, best we've had in several years.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

And uh, you know, it's it's just fascinating to to ride a picker through all those varieties because you learn so much from a picker seat. Yeah. And uh a lot of times we drove joke about tractor time, but riding a high boy, riding a picker, yeah. There's so much to learn. And uh, I mean, it was really good cotton on the irrigated uh not a single or I mean we we picked everything we made, and that's one of the reasons shields were so good out there.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Yeah, yeah, didn't write nothing off. And I mean, we we looked pretty hard during the season and made sure that we didn't have any plant bug problems and stuff like that. So we uh you know we weren't missing a whole lot there. No, we we did a good job there.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

I would say the weather, uh the weather helped quite a bit too. Um later part of the season there wasn't a lot of rain. Yeah. And so for early planting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Because those are all early planted, yeah. Yeah, those were those were the first part of May. I think we planted the pivot on May 1st, and they may have planted the OVTs the same day. Maybe a day later. It was real close. Yeah, really close.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

For irrigated, for irrigated, just to mention.

Jassid Emergence, Control, and Timing

SPEAKER_02 6:03

But yeah, if it's dry land, then that's a different start. Well, and the dry land wasn't bad for the fields they were in. I mean, those fields are pretty pretty bad, but I mean that the dry land OVTs look good whenever I sprayed them. So it uh, you know, we like I say, we got a long way to go, but we're starting to get some get some data in and and things like that. We're actually gonna try to gin the OVTs today, so maybe we can get that data out pretty quick. So that's the plan, anyways. But Daughter Roberts has uh have calls slowed down a little bit for you. Oh yeah. That's good. It's over. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Actually, uh there was some cotton sprayed last week, and uh it was a combination of jacids and white flies. It cotton may have been planted it was late June 15th. But uh sure, June 15th. Yeah, and uh, but that's it. I mean, I really believe we're done with insects.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Um and we're just gonna wait and see how everything turns out. Yeah. And I mean, you've been spending a lot of time in the office kind of looking through stuff, getting ready.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Yeah, we're looking through stuff. We uh summarizing a lot of data. I mean, when you you start looking at everything we did, I mean, we worked some long hours, Sarah, and and my crew, all my crew and uh some of your crew camp, anybody that helped with this. Uh but now we got to put it all together, make sense of it. And uh so we're in the process of that, but we'll have a lot of information to share. And it's just like I was um, you know, it's less than three months ago we first saw this insect. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to believe. It was July 9th. Seems like a year. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

So that's may have aged you a year or two.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

I'm younger now.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Lost two pounds. Did you? Yeah. Good for you, man. That's great. Y'all pick some.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Handpick some. We hand pick some, and uh, you know, the intent of that trial was over in Aplin County with Will Brown. Dr. Will Brown. Oh, yeah. Dr. Dr. Jassett over there. I tell you, Will Brown has done a great job over in that part of the state. He knows. We got other agents too. Um, you know, Jacob Kleina, Jeremy Kickler. Oh, yeah. I mean, I can keep naming them. Um, but that's just where we did trials with growers. But and I've said this before, but you know, when this thing showed up, the first thing you do is, and every grower's gonna ask is how you kill you. Find out if you can kill it. How do you kill it? And so, you know, a lot of those trials uh, you know, the objective wasn't to take them to yield, the objective was to determine how we could kill the insect. Yep. And uh, you know, that's a long time ago when we made those initial sprays, but uh we put our trials on field edges because that's where we had the most jacets, and they were very uniform on the edges. So but as it all kind of materialized throughout the year, and we looked at these together, you know, we could see our little green spots. I took a video of you and and crunching leaves. Well, and that was the bad spot.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

You know, we've made the decision, hey, we'll go hand pick, you know. So we did. And we still are trying to get that cotton a little dry. We started picking before the rain. I don't even remember what day. That was Monday. Monday. Monday. I mean, we literally finished picking and it was raining. But uh I couldn't stand it. I did weigh the bags. Yeah, you did. Yeah, and there was a difference in yield. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Um but the difference is between nothing versus something. Nothing versus versus something that works.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Something that worked. Yeah. So and again, it was a single application. You know, in hindsight, if it would have been a yield trial, we should have gone back and sprayed it again. Yeah. But at that time, you know, we were going all over the place just trying to get efficacy data. Uh-huh. And we've got a lot of yield trials set up here in Tifton. Yeah. But uh. And uh we're gonna get some stuff in Applen County. We'll get some stuff. You know, we've got some large plots uh in Brooks County, is also, but we hope to get those. And uh but at the end of the day, we got a lot of information to share. Uh is that gonna be what you talk about this winter, you reckon? Well, I don't know. It depends on what the county agents want to hear about. But yeah, yeah. Uh you know, uh I do need a break from Jassid. You want to talk about something else? A lot of people need breaks from Jassids, even you. Yeah. Um even Henry was asking about them this morning. He said, oh my gosh, these Jassets. Yeah. But I tell you what, we got a um one thing I'm I'm proud of. We we got a lot of other people helping looking at this. I mean, we have this great southeastern group of entomologists, Cotton Incorporated fund some little regional project projects. Shout out to them. But but we you know, it's more than just the entomologists. John Schneider, I physiologist, you know, he's I was telling Jeremy about that this morning. Yeah, he's helping us understand, you know, how that leaf decline really or how it he quantifies how it impacts photosynthetic capacity of that leaf. And that's fascinating.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Yeah.

Data Synthesis and Regional Collaboration

SPEAKER_01 11:44

And you know, trying to understand how long we need to protect cotton. Yeah. You know, I don't know that we have trials in place this year that that shows us that. Right. I mean, we'll plan that out next year, but that's a huge question, is is when can you terminate? I mean, we we were probably we were aggressive this year and we went to 20% open. Felt like we had to be though. Felt like we had to do, had to, because the leaf decline was so rapid. And uh, you know, we're getting yield, some yield reports in, but it's hard to know camp when you don't have a comparison. Yeah, oh yeah. I mean, data is is is is important.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

But uh well, and hey, pictures did pictures tell the story. I mean, uh you sent me a picture from a field where the where the switch wasn't working. Oh yeah. Yeah, and it's like golly. Fascinating. I mean, one application of a product that works, and then you got something that was left off, and it's just like holy cow.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah, very easy to see that. You know, one of the take-home points, and we'll move on, is uh very obvious this year you had to be on time. I've had a lot of conversations with folks where an application was delayed seven to ten days, and that happens on the farm. Yeah, oh yeah. And you know, but I mean we talk about it a lot with like plant bugs or something, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Yeah. I mean, it happens. And you know But there's certain things that you can't let it happen.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

There's certain things you can't let it happen, and this is one of them. And uh but we'll we'll visit a lot this winter, and uh hey, we want feedback from growers if they think they saw anything, uh if they have any thoughts on yields and everything, give your county agent a call. We'd like to hear that. One of the things I'm gonna be talking to our county agents about is I really want to understand how many acres we truly sprayed for this insect. It was a lot.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

It was a lot, and uh but we'll we need to get that quantified. But uh anyway, that's where we are.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

You know, you brought up the entomology working group, cotton incorporated, all that fun stuff. But I mean, there's a lot of people that got skin in the game now, and it's like they, you know, they're investing grower dollars. Grow dollars, the the council's gotten involved, the industry's gotten involved, um, of course the Georgia Cotton Commission getting involved. Like I mean a lot of people have really everybody's kind of banding together to to get some answers and help out with this stuff. Yep, and we're moving forward.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

We hope to get some help here in Tifton. And uh hopefully that'll materialize here pretty soon. We'll have another member on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 14:28

So that's right. Research entomologists finally, finally refilling Dr. Taze's position from all.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Well, it's approved. You know, we still have to have a search committee. We need, you know, we still a long ways to go. That's not something that can happen very quickly.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Oh, yeah. It takes like a year. Yeah, we got to hire somebody. I need the right person, but I'm glad that's moving forward. It's moving forward. So that's good. Henry, what you want people thinking about right now? Soil samples.

Defoliation Expectations under Jassid Stress

SPEAKER_00 14:55

All right. So this is more of a reflection really why I came here. Um you might have had your fields. This might be a time to look at uh over the season uh some of the things that uh how did the field look overall? Uh-huh. And just one of the things I think will help us is data. Dr. Robert mentioned, um sometimes you need data, and this is where I come in. I say look at data. Um if you have very uh unique problems field-wise looking at uh overall field view, uh huh, you want to uh uh get get to like you said, sampling or anything, just note special problems in the field. If you have picked the f uh the field, then maybe you might want to go in there and do some side-by-side sampling for comparison. If not, and the fields are just uh you still have uh yet to pick, just note them and after you pick, um, it would be a good time to start thinking about this. Yeah.

Fertility, Regrowth, and Termination Timing

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's you know certainly something to think about. And I I even like Dr. Roberts was talking about the value of tractor time or picker time, sprayer time, whatever. But I mean, in a in a field that we had this year, I I sprayed it with our sprayer three or four times probably and noticed that it started crashing out from potash pretty early this time. And so it's like, hey, that's something we're gonna take into account because I know I'm gonna be in that field again next year. So that's something we're gonna take into account next time. Um, you know, putting our full rate up front and then maybe putting a little bit more with our with our uh nitrogen side dress. And so um, those are the type of things that that Henry's talking about in terms of reflecting on the year and and being prepared for next time. Right, right. So um, you know, certainly something that we need to take into account. Uh we did call Wes this morning and he he said that a lot of this uh this June planted cotton, Dr. Roberts, it is not in peak water use anymore. It's time to terminate, sir. So um he mentioned some stuff that they had planted on June 11th, and uh water use kind of crashed out last week. I think we may have pulled the plug on on some of ours about two weeks ago. It was planted about the same time, but it it was it cut out or starting to open um about two weeks ago, and so we we stopped watering that. Uh time to start thinking about some of that um on some of that June planted cotton and you know pull pulling the plug on irrigation. Um, I have started, I have been getting some questions on defoliation, and the big questions are with respect to Jacid, believe it or not, Dr. Roberts. And uh but it's more of uh how's it impacting defoliation, what does it look like, you know, stuff like that. Uh and we've talked about it on this podcast, but I got a call from a grower first part of the week, Monday, and uh he told me that he didn't think his defoliant was doing a good job, and part of it was that he thought it was the Jassid, and I asked when he sprayed, and it was less than a week ago. And I was like, hey, give it a few more days, let's go back out and check that again, and um, we'll kind of get a game plan together if if we need to make a follow-up application, but really, you know, we need to give it a few more days, and and we kind of got a little cool over the weekend, and so kind of let that stuff work a little bit. I mean, there's stuff that I sprayed two weeks ago that somebody went and looked at for me yesterday and told me said, hey, let it keep going. Like it's still popping open. So we may let that stuff go to next week. And part of that's waiting on a picker, too. So we just need to kind of don't panic, right? I mean, we just need to watch it and make sure, but don't don't go check, you know, three days after you spray and say something ain't working. You know, we need to check it about a week or 10 days out and then we'll make a make a decision on what to do next. But certainly have gotten some questions about the uh defoliating the some of this jazzed cotton, but really, I mean, if the leaves are still red, if they're red, that they're gonna come off, I think. If they're not crunchy. If they're not crunchy, if they're not brown, right? I mean, if they're brown, they're crunchy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

So I mean, it's you know so I've talked to some folks, you know, they're with this jazzed, obviously they were pretty tough on the edges. And uh but also you have these little hot pockets within a field, almost like little spider mic pockets. And uh seems like where it got a little out of hand, there is a little bit there.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

But uh I think overall from folks I've talked to, it's just like what you said. If they give it time, everything seems to be working properly.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

And uh as long as it's not crunchy.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

As long as it's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

And I mean if it uh And even with that, it's it has to be like majority of the entire leaves being crunchy before you're not gonna see a response. Um yeah, if it but if it's just reddish and it's still photosynthesis, like there is active uptake, it would take the chemical.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Yeah, you know that that was kind of part of the stuff that Dr. Schneider looked at and quantify like classifying these different color changes and then associating like photosynthesis, because if it's still if it's still alive, right, that that's the ticket here. If it's still alive, then it can take the stuff up. But I mean, even those those red leaves are only doing 20% of what they should be, right? Is kind of what Dr. Snyder stuff says. That's right. And so, um, but still, that's enough to take this stuff up and kind of get it going. But if it's if it's brown, I mean, it ain't getting through there. And even I was talking to Jeremy this morning, and he was talking about the pitiholes look dried up and all kind of stuff, and I mean that probably presents a couple of issues there as well. But um, you know, we're we're looking good though. It's it's uh let's see, this is gonna come out on Friday. So I mean, this weekend it's gonna cool off, but it's gonna get back warm next week. And I hope that these people are I don't know if this helps with that too, but it'll help with defoliation. And so what's that?

SPEAKER_00 21:21

I was gonna mention ironically uh some of the plots that got very, very heavy infestation with acid. I put in 30 units of nitrogen just to observe what will happen. And ironically, I did see re group rich new shoots trying to shoot out. That's interesting. And so that could be if in worst case scenario, uh, but this just an observation. When do you do it? When do you do it? I put it in uh then I put it in like uh about 10 days, roughly less than two weeks. Oh go, like two weeks ago? Yeah, but those were in our late planted field. Yeah, yeah. Late planted fields, and and I did see that they were starting to pop out new shoots. Yeah, right. So it is so that might be a something that we can learn from.

Stalk Destruction and Strategic Tillage

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Yeah, we're gonna have to visit on this, Henry, because um in India good fertility is a cultural management practice for this insect. And I and I think we saw it this year um where you had lower fertility in a field. Those weeks by those weeks quicker. The jasid quicker. The jasid really hurt those spots or or those areas of the field. So, you know, we need to have proper fertility all the time, but uh in the presence of jazzed, it couldn't become more important. So there's a lot of questions. A lot of questions, a lot of opportunities. Well, call it what you want to get answers.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

But just looking at in some of these fields where we've defoliated and had some regrowth, part of me wonders if like that if that stuff is just getting fed on by the gasses that are still there, or if the that toxin that they inject is still in the plant. Yeah, that's a good great question. I don't I don't know. Because it's like a lot of the like just putting fertility out there, it might I mean it greens up or whatever for a little while, but I mean, if you don't take care of the problem, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

A lot of the regrowth, you know, where I've seen regrowth is just puckered up really bad. The nodes are stacked. Um, I don't know if that's what you're seeing, Henry, or if it looks kind of normal. But uh hey, that's one thing we can mention. Hey, if you got green cotton, jazzes are feeding and reproducing. We don't need them to be doing that. Yeah. Um, so I think it's a it makes sense. Let's let's get these stalks mowed. You know, if we pulled a phone, if you're a stalk puller, yeah, let's pull them. Let's get that if you're gonna mow them, mow them low. Mow them low. And but we don't need these things to keep building populations. We don't know what's gonna happen this winter with that insect. Yeah. But anything we can do to have fewer going in this winter is gonna help us next year.

Classing Results, Quality, and Next Steps

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Looking at next week and kind of the foreseeable future, I mean, it looks like the next two weeks are wide open in terms of weather. Uh it warms back up in the 80s next week, and so just about anything that you'd want to do defoliation-wise, should work really, really well over the next couple weeks. And so we we've got ample weather and ample opportunity to get out there and get some of this cotton, and um we need to get after it. I hope that you know, those folks that got some of this rain over the last week or so are getting after it on these on these dryland peanuts, kind of getting some of that out of the way so we can put some of that to bed and and uh kind of turn our attention to getting this cotton out of the field, getting it sprayed, putting some of these issues to bed uh for 2025, and then uh getting it ginned and getting ready for uh 2026. Has uh has the class in office put anything out, Dr. Roberts?

SPEAKER_01 25:15

I haven't looked, but I do know they're they've start began classing cotton. I was in Early County, did a meeting down there w last week, maybe. Uh-huh. And there was a gentleman from the class in office said they had began running samples. Yeah. So but I haven't seen a report.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Yeah. Yeah. Which that may be part of the they're still classing, but I I don't know if that's part of your colours.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Well, well, I asked the question. Uh-huh. But so they're not part of it because that group that classes cotton, you know, we pay a fee. Right. Or growers pay a fee to have their cotton class. So it's oh, and it's mostly contract workers. Yeah, so I I I don't think you know that that's not gonna be a shutdown of the government because it's a self-funded program.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Even though it's under USDA. That's kind of interesting. I didn't know that. But um, anyways, you know, like I say, we got us a long way to go. We're gonna uh do a couple more of these probably this year, and then uh it's gonna be about time to uh wrap this up and get ready for the winter. But let me also add this.

Closing Notes and Grower Outreach

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Um with with what we've had, uh, insects and all these, uh I I I strongly go for the pulling of the stocks or move very, very low. Yeah. From a soil health perspective, I I don't I'm not worried about that. Yeah. What I'm a bit worried about is um intensive tillage. Yeah. Um, and I I think uh one of the things I'm trying to advocate is let's uh be more of a strategic tillage system. Yeah. If you have a problem like this problem, if you don't have a way to pull out the stock, you don't have a mower, and maybe all you can do is just hire it up, maybe then that's a reason. You are fine to do it. But if you have other options and you can reduce the amount of disturbance to the soil, um, I think I don't know how to say, but little drops of water makes a big difference. Right. Little management practices make a big difference. And one of the things, especially for cotton that we are seeing is how we manage uh uh the soil in terms of cartilage make a big difference. Even uh from an economic perspective. If you can save even just if you typically do three passes, two passes, and now you can drop it down to just a pass, yeah, it will still give you a few. Oh yeah, that's a huge deal. That's a big difference in terms of being economically uh profitable with your farming. Right. Right. I I think we should look into strategic uh let's be strategic. Check do some soil compaction readings and be sure that you need it. Right. And it and just do maybe one more one till it just to get rid of residue management for many residue management, not necessarily for loosening the soil. You don't need it this time. This is not a time uh you might want to revisit that at least spring and and make decisions from there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

What's the class and report say not alright?

SPEAKER_01 28:16

They've classed about 10,000 bells. What's it look like? Looks pretty good. Uh yesterday they or on October 6th, they classed 3,600 bells. Primarily 31. There we go. Yeah. So yeah, it looks real good. I mean, looks good.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Oh yeah. Premium? We averaging a premium, does it say?

SPEAKER_01 28:40

Well, on that day it was 193, so yeah. Yeah. That's good. Almost two cents.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

There we go. That's a good thing. That is a good thing. So hopefully we keep that up. Like I said, the weather looks great for the next couple weeks. So it ought to be wide open in terms of getting good good quality cotton to the gin. So, but uh in the meantime, we'll we'll be back here in a couple weeks. But if y'all have any questions, please reach out to your county agent. Thank you. Thank you for listening to this episode of Talking Cotton with the UGA Cotton Team. If you have any questions about anything we talked about today, or if there's anything you'd like for us to talk about in the future, please contact your local UGA County Extension agent. And as always, you can find us on all major podcast platforms. Be sure to like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can stay up to date.