Dr. Carl Anderson, considered Texas’ leading cotton marketing authority and one of the nation’s leading cotton analysts, passed away August 30 at the age of 83.
The delay of deliverable 2014 world production supplies, coupled with limited availability of old crop export grade cotton, has kept a bit of a fire burning under the market.
The Walmart Foundation has awarded more than $470,000 in funding to a Texas Tech University Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute research project to study more efficient ways for indigo dyeing of cotton yarns.