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Cotton News
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.
Food blogger Vani Hari is known as an eager critic of how food is produced and consumed who tends to draw strong followers – and detractors. Her latest, a hit piece on cottonseed oil, drew a lengthy response from Cotton Incorporated.
This effective but dangerous chemical went off the market in 2010 after legal and regulatory battles took their toll. But six years later, could aldicarb be mounting a comeback?
China holds more than half of the world’s growing cotton stockpile, and it’s running out of storage space.
Cotton production in The Golden State is on a decline for the fourth straight year, as farmers find it increasingly hard to justify growing it amid a multiyear drought.
The three companies that produce a majority of U.S. cottonseed recently announced their new varieties for the 2015 crop season.
Cotton entered a bear market as improved prospects for crops in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter, compounds the outlook for abundant world supplies.
The government’s forecast for cotton farm prices during the current marketing year is below many farmers’ cost of production.