Agronomist Jeff Klippas walks through a cotton field near Houston in July 2025, checking on crop treatments and plant health. Flooding and equipment problems are slowing progress, but the fruit load looks solid.
Hello everyone following aea, this is Jeff Klippas, agronomist here in Texas. Today, standing in a cotton field on a beautiful. I can't even remember what day it is anymore. Wednesday morning. And just looking at different, different treatments that we've got going out here with, with this grower here in the Texas coastal bend south of Houston. And they've dealt with some different things with needing to replant and some different issues around their equipment, but definitely going to get some, some good feedb if the weather allows us to don't get a hurricane during harvest, which is always a risk in this part of the world. So we'll see, see what happens. So just to give you an idea of what we're looking at, you know, here, here's the cotton field. We've got Accelerate and Biocoat Gold over here on this part of the field versus just Bio Coke Gold on this part of the field. And the grower is pleased with everything that he's got into this simple program and we're really excited to see how, how things turn out here in a few months when, when we get the picker in. So stay tuned and we'll see what happens. But so far we are seeing better quality plants versus the control which is down the, down the road a little bit here and then also seeing more fruit load. So excited to see how this turns out. You can see it's loading up nicely, see all the flowers, some of the bolls starting to form and just a really nice fruit set starting to come in. And for the stress that this cotton has been under, I am not disappointed, the grower is not disappointed, which is the main thing. But we'll see how all of this transpires and continues to, to fill out. But we have a pretty good fruit set coming on considering that part of this field has been flooded and just anxious to see how the year is going to turn out.
