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A map of North Carolina temperatures showing cooler temps in the west and warmer temps around 70 degrees in the east.

Cotton Planting Conditions: May 8, 2025

Keith Edmisten & Guy CollinsExtension Cotton SpecialistsThe lowest soil temperature recorded last night at Rocky Mount was 71 °F. and ranged from 64 to the lower to mid-70s across most of our cotton…

DD60 Planting Forecast from 4/28 until 5/8.

Cotton Planting Conditions April 27, 2025

Keith Edmisten & Guy CollinsExtension Cotton SpecialistsThe lowest soil temperature recorded last night at Rocky Mount was 64.5°F, while the highest soil temperature was 81.5°F. The weather appears…

Map showing the 8-14 day temperature outlook across the United States, valid from May 9-15, 2024. The map highlights various regions with expected temperatures above, near, or below normal, with a color-coded legend indicating probability percentages.

Cotton Planting Conditions May 2, 2024

Keith Edmisten and Guy CollinsExtension Cotton Specialists, NC State UniversityA small percentage of our crop has been planted at this point as many growers have been concentrating on getting peanuts…

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Considerations for Expected Planting Conditions (Collins, Edmisten, & Cahoon)

Based on the weather forecast right now for multiple areas across the state, it appears that we’ll have a greenlight for planting cotton beginning on Monday, April 29th (see our Planting Conditions…

Planting Forecast Outlook from 4/24 to 5/4.

Cotton Planting Condition April 24, 2024

Keith Edmisten and Guy CollinsExtension Cotton Specialists, NC State UniversityWe are seeing a warming spell predicted after a couple of nights in the mid-30s. Soil temperature this morning at Rocky…

Rocky Mount planting forecast table starting 5/16/2023: dates, highs/lows, DD60s, ratings

Cotton Planting Conditions May 16, 2023

It looks like we will continue to have decent cotton planting weather for the remainder of the optimum cotton planting window. There are a few nights where lows at Rocky Mount are predicted to be in…

US 8–14 day temperature outlook (May 15–21, 2023) showing Above in West, Below in central/South, Near Normal elsewhere

Cotton Planting Conditions May 8, 2023

The planting conditions have certainly improved thankfully ranging from very good to excellent. The only question marks we see is that we will have low nighttime temperatures on May 10 and 11. We…

Spreadsheet showing Rocky Mount planting forecast from 4/24/2023 with DD60 ratings and avoid-planting comments

Cotton Planting Conditions April 24, 2023

The soil temperature was 62.5 degrees this morning at Rocky Mount. That would not be too bad if we had a predicted warming trend. Unfortunately we have predicted cool weather coming in that will…