Market Analysis
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Uzbek Government Says EU Boycott Won’t Weaken Country’s Position in Global Cotton Market
Citing alleged use of child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, prominent Western textile manufacturers and the European Union are imposing…
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India Won’t Lift Cotton Export Ban
Anand Sharma, India’s textile and commerce minister, announced on Apr. 9 that India will not permit additional cotton exports until…
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Cleveland: USDA’s March Report Sends Cotton Market Lower
Cotton prices moved lower all week as the market failed to find any support in the USDA March Cotton Planting…
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Cotton Incorporated Introduces New ‘Fabric of Our Lives’ Celebs
For years, The Fabric of Our Lives song featured in Cotton Incorporated’s advertising, has connected consumers to the ways cotton…
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Indian Budget Promotes Technical Textiles Sector
By Seshadri Ramkumar The Indian budget for 2012-13 presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on March 16th provides multiple…
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PCG, Deltapine Announce Winners of the Cotton Commercial Contest
Monsanto Company – on behalf of Deltapine cotton – and the Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. are pleased to announce Lubbock-Cooper…
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USDA Projects 13.2 Million Cotton Acres for 2012
The early USDA projection for 2012 U.S. cotton area is 13.2 million acres, a decrease of about 10% from last…
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Corn, Soybeans Threaten Cotton Acreage
It has become increasingly clear that many growers will increase corn and soybean acres this year at the expense of…
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Gleaning the Best of the Rest
At the Mid-South Farm and Gin show in Memphis, Joe Nicosia gives the annual economic update. Nicosia is CEO of…
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Lock in Cottonseed Prices Now
Lower cotton acreages, a persistent Texas drought and a recent dip in cottonseed prices add up to the following advice…