Excessive rain hit several areas in Georgia’s cotton growing
region in June.   Where this kind of rainfall occurred, cotton
was already planted. Cotton seedlings are highly sensitive to
excessively wet soils.  In most cases the soil profile dries out
and growth and development is not delayed.   But the shear
amount of rainfall and continued frequency of rains have left
soil in parts of some fields or entire fields waterlogged for
days, if not weeks.  First things first, the soil does have to
dry out for us to do most anything to the crop. In cases,
portions of a field will remain waterlogged while most of the
field is drying out.  The question of when to start working a
field may be based on when a particularly wet portion of the
field dries, but consider that these parts of the field may
remain unworkable for the entire year and proceeding with field
activities in the majority of the field while staying out of wet
areas may be the way to go.  Waterlogged soils can cause cotton
seedlings to respond in various