Cotton harvest underway

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In the News - October 2009
Cotton harvest underway

HELENA, Ark. - After weeks of waiting on the rain to stop, Arkansas cotton growers are in the field and harvesting what they can of the state's crop.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service said that for the week ending October 18, only 8 percent of the cotton crop had been harvested, compared with 52 percent at this time last year.

Arkansas growers planted 520,000 acres of cotton this year, down from 620,000 last year. The 2008 crop was valued at nearly $349 million dollars.

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HARVEST TIME - After a lengthy rain delay, one Phillips County producer is able to get cotton out of the field on Monday, Oct. 19. (University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture photo by Robert Goodson.)	READY FOR MORE - A Phillips County cotton producer dumps what his picker scooped up during a seemingly rare dry day on Monday, October 19. (University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture photo by Robert Goodson.)

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HARD TIMES, HARD BOLLS - Cotton bolls, a victim of the overabundant fall rain, lays on the ground. Some of the bolls were hard-locked or rotten and fell to the ground, others were knocked to the ground when the picker moved down the rows. (University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture photo by Robert Goodson.)

October 21, 2009

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