Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:03 AM EDT2013-05-21 04:03:02 GMT
Paramedics tell us they're amazed no one was seriously hurt in a rush hour crash just outside Albany Monday evening. The driver of a pickup truck lost control on Philema Road just before 5:00. The truckMore >>
The driver of a pickup truck and his passenger walk away from the mangled wreckage after a crash.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:02 AM EDT2013-05-21 04:02:59 GMT
An unusual wreck on Albany's bypass Monday night left the highway littered with yard debris. About 9:30, a car collided with a trailer that was hauling tree limbs on the Liberty Expressway between theMore >>
Wrecked cars and yard debris slow traffic on Albany's bypass.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 11:45 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:45:07 GMT
Moultrie Police tell us they have the accused triggerman in a shooting in custody after two weeks on the run. Police arrested 19-year-old Darren Huntley over the weekend in Waycross. 22-year-old DominiqueMore >>
Moultrie Police tell us they have the accused triggerman in a shooting in custody after two weeks on the run.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 11:37 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:37:21 GMT
Students at a South Georgia University are working together to make it into the workforce. Nursing students at Georgia Southwestern asked business students to help them prepare for their job searches. HumanMore >>
Students at a South Georgia University are working together to make it into the workforce.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 11:28 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:28:47 GMT
A lot of South Georgians are all too familiar with the damage a tornado can do. An EF-3 tornado roared through Americus six years ago. It killed two people and destroyed Sumter Regional Hospital andMore >>
A lot of South Georgians are all too familiar with the damage a tornado can do.More >>
ALBANY, GA (WALB) - A downturn in the stock market is affecting the price of cotton now ready for harvest in many south Georgia fields.
Prices for the crop have fallen as much as 10 cents per pound in the last six weeks. This year's crop is described as fair. It won't be the bumper crop south Georgia saw the last two years. Cotton that was irrigated did well, but the hot dry summer affected the quality. Harvesting this year has come a little later because of south Georgia's wheat crop.
"This is a late season usually by mid September we're going pretty strong but we got a lot of wheat and a lot of cotton behind that so it's a little bit different this year we're kind of starting off slow but it will probably extend into January because of that," said Floyd Taylor, Doerun Gin Company.
There's still plenty of surplus cotton on the market from the last two years, but the speculation is that will be used up this year with more farmers in the Mississippi Delta choosing to grow soybeans instead of cotton.
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