# Spanning the Cotton Belt’s Hot News; Trying to Make Sense of the Market Author: khenderson Published: 2020-07-20 Canonical URL: https://www.cottongrower.com/companion/spanning-the-cotton-belts-hot-news-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-market/ --- ![Cotton Companion #52 – Market Facilitation Payments!](https://www.cottongrower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CCpageheader.jpg) *Cotton Grower* Editors Frank Giles and Jim Steadman recap a few weeks of news impacting U.S. cotton. And Dr. O.A. Cleveland joins in to explain the current cotton market in his own inimitable way. [![Cotton Companion #52 – Market Facilitation Payments!](https://www.cottongrower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/apple-50px.png)](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cotton-companion/id1003900020?mt=2) [![Cotton Companion #52 – Market Facilitation Payments!](https://www.cottongrower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Google-music-50px.png)](https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ivyyrulsqv2iqu5bl7uciui3ccm?t%3DThe_Cotton_Companion%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16) [![Cotton Companion #52 – Market Facilitation Payments!](https://www.cottongrower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Spodify-50px.png)](https://open.spotify.com/show/2VVvVXQizfND8stXzeJW77)