Ginger Rowsey
Patrick Turnage farms around 6,000 acres in the Missouri Bootheel and western Tennessee. He says he wouldn’t want to grow cotton without high-speed planters.
As the market for high-speed planters grows, farmers with experience share what they’ve learned.
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
It was a cool, wet start to May in the North Delta … again. This apparent weather trend once more pushed a lot of planting to the latter part of the month — causing more than a little worry among the region’s producers, particularly cotton growers.
But Patrick Turnage, a cotton farmer near Hayti, Mo., was unphased by the late start, and for several reasons. First, as a part owner of Caruthersville Gin, he’s committed to cotton. And while he isn’t a fan of planting it in June, as he puts it, “I’ll plant to May 34th.”