Harvest aids are working well. If weather holds we'll have pickers running on every farm next week. The peak damage appears to be in Avoyelles Parish. I'm finding closed green bolls with small sprouts emerging, which I've only seen one other time. This is the worst damage I've ever seen.
Quality is yet another problem.
Whether to pick a field will be a decision that has to be made one field at a time. There's no way to assess it yet, but you can look down the row and see very poor prospects. In other parts of the state the amount of boll damage varies. One odd situation is that some of the cotton defoliated before the last heavy rainfall weathered it better than where plants still carried leaves. There was a little more air movement, which may have reduced seed sprouting.