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Application training program aims to protect diversified crops in neighboring fields.
Cotton planting is on pace for 2017, just one point behind the five-year average in the nation’s top cotton producing states, according to the USDA.
The USDA’s Prospective Planting report will give the industry a starting point on acreage for the spring planting season, and cotton is looking to win back farmers in 2017. Early estimates are predicting up to 1 million acres.
The cotton market is on fire, taking a 180 degree turn from just two years ago. Cotton futures are seeing a big boost in recent days.
Cotton markets usually aren’t discussed at the AgDay agribusiness desk. John Payne of Daniels Trading is discussing the cotton rally and the opportunities to market the crop.
A cotton gin in Kansas is seeing near-record production.
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This corner of rural West Texas is as reliant on farming, boom-and-bust oil cycles and declining segments of a bygone manufacturing economy as it is reliably red in the voting booth.
While most South Plains cotton has already been harvested, non-defoliated fields are awaiting a freeze.
China’s wall of cotton is coming down.