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For a crop with the biggest carryover relative to use, wheat has showed a lot of life recently.
USDA’s spring wheat crop progress and condition ratings.
See all production data for winter, durum and spring wheat.
Egypt said on Sunday that its strategic stock of wheat is safe and covers four-month needs despite a Russian export ban.
The market is all over the burned up wheat in Russia.
Reports from farmers across the country show a mixed bag of wheat conditions.
John Deere utility tractors hit the road, What a Day!: Jackknifed, and Stat Rack: Guinness World Record wheat harvest
Cash and futures convergence policies control the wheat market
More fall-like conditions for much of the U.S. this week – AgWeb.com Editors ...
New CME rules are bringing unexpected premiums.
New biotech wheat traits coming
You normally can’t eat cottonseeds. That’s because they have a toxin in them that’s harmful to both people and animals.
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.
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 Raindls share the story of their family’s Texas crop through their clothing brand
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.
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.
Congress is furiously working to finish several important resolutions before 2017 comes to an end, including an $81 billion disaster aid package.
New options abound, but the fundamentals haven’t changed
Cotton harvest 2017 is underway in the nation’s top cotton growing state, Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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