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Whole Farm Analysis of Ultra Narrow Row Cotton Crop Rotations in the Southern Piedmont

S. G. Bullen, A. B. Brown and T. Pegram


 
ABSTRACT

UNR cotton acreage has increased significantly in the last five years in the North Carolina Southern Piedmont Region. Ultra Narrow Row cotton (UNR) has been adopted in 80 percent of these new cotton acres, with most growing continuous cotton. A model UNR cotton farm was developed to compare a continuous UNR cotton system with four different crop rotations. Five years of actual county yields and prices were used in the model farm. The model farm was developed based on visits and survey of UNR farms in the Southern Piedmont. The wheat-soybean double crop rotation was found similarly profitable as continuous UNR cotton. With a five-percent yield increase, the wheat-soybean and soybean rotations had net farm incomes comparable to continuous UNR cotton.





Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 187 - 189
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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