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Jerry Lee Hamill of Enfield, N.C. is the 2021 High Cotton winner for the Southeast. Jerry Hamill has been extremely successful and continues to produce bountiful cotton crops in a very efficient, sustainable manner.
Jerry Hamill has been successfully and profitably producing cotton in North Carolina for more 52 years so he must be doing something right.
That’s one clear take away from the many cotton industry peers who nominated Hamill for the 2021 High Cotton Award for the Southeast; he does all he can to produce the best crops he can with the goal of perfection. His peers know that Hamill does things right, which has been the key to his success in both the good years and lean years.
A symptom of cotton leafroll dwarf virus in late-crop stages is abnormal plant growth. There were a very small number of field disasters from Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus across the Cotton Belt in 2019 and 2020.
The sky isn’t falling with the Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus, CLRDV with efforts underway across the Cotton Belt to take on the disease.
That’s the message Steve Brown, Auburn University Extension cotton agronomist, delivered to the virtual annual meeting of Southern Cotton Growers and Southeastern Cotton Ginners Jan. 14. Brown emphasized there were a very small number of field disasters from CLRDV across the Cotton Belt in 2019 and 2020. In fact, Brown said the incidence of CLRDV was less in 2020 than it was in 2019.