Cotton
The United States will move to block imports of cotton and tomato products from western China’s Xinjiang region over allegations that they are produced with forced labor.
A new cotton program helps trace cotton from farm all the way to American flags, helping share farmers’ strong story about a crop with a strong history.
Cotton acres at risk amid adverse weather as well as corn gain and cotton crop uncertainty may spur more price volatility.
Betsy Jibben talks with Ralph Sandeford, the owner of the Midville Gin and Warehouse, Midville, GA.
The trade battle between the U.S. and China continues, and fresh data from U.S. Department of Agriculture puts it into perspective, showing some states saw exports decrease more than 80 percent to China in 2018.
Conditions for the cotton crop in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter, are deteriorating as dry weather erodes planting prospects in Texas, the top state grower.
You normally can’t eat cottonseeds. That’s because they have a toxin in them that’s harmful to both people and animals.
The Raindls share the story of their family’s Texas crop through their clothing brand
Months after Hurricane Harvey dumped feet of rain on Houston and Texas, economists with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are totaling up the damages caused by the summer storm, now believed to be a combined $200 million between livestock, hay, feed, cotton, rice and soybeans.
Cotton producers in Arkansas will receive a 75 cent per acre rebate from the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) for 2017 acreage.
In Texas, cotton is king. Approximately 8.8 million bales of Texas cotton were produced in 2017, more than three times Georgia, the second closest cotton-producing state yielded.
Congress is furiously working to finish several important resolutions before 2017 comes to an end, including an $81 billion disaster aid package.
According to the USDA, nearly all of the cotton crop has been picked, and now the gins are hard at work.
Timely rains are helping cotton yields in Texas this year.
Cotton harvest 2017 is underway in the nation’s top cotton growing state, Texas.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is forecasting a big cotton crop in the United States this year at 12.2 million acres overall, a 21 percent increase from 2016.
Over the last several weeks, cotton prices have seen a decent run in prices. Ashley Arrington, founder of AgriAuthority, told AgDay host Clinton Griffiths cotton markets can be “dramatic at times, especially in relation to the July contract.”
USDA is forecasting a large cotton crop in the U.S. this year which could mean new growers coming online but the financial picture may hold some cotton acres back.
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 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.
Farmers from 10 states are eligible to join a potential class action against Monsanto from dicamba drift damage. States include Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Application training program aims to protect diversified crops in neighboring fields.
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.
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.
Bayer-Monsanto Combination Likely Too Big in U.S. Cottonseed (2)
While most South Plains cotton has already been harvested, non-defoliated fields are awaiting a freeze.
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.
China’s wall of cotton is coming down.