Market Analysis
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Fabric Buyers Face More Price Increases, Inflation Fears
Higher raw material costs have already arrived for fabric users of all kinds, particularly consumers of cotton. The question everyone…
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Price Volatility Could Cause a Bumpy Ride
Mike Watson Vice President, Fiber Competition Cotton Incorporated Cotton markets are in a period of unprecedented volatility. While higher cotton…
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Noted Economists Offer Risk Management Advice in Memphis
Farmers have the opportunity to discuss critical market-based price risk strategies with some of the brightest minds in the industry…
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Cleveland: Fundamentals Still Supporting the Market
By Dr. O. A. Cleveland Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University For Bayer CropScience Last week’s release of the January USDA…
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Revised 2010/11 Indian Crop Estimate Released
India’s Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) met last week in Mumbai and released a revised cotton production estimate for the 2010/11…
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Cotton Futures Could See Biggest Yearly Gain Since 1973
By Debarati Roy Bloomberg Cotton rose, heading for the biggest annual gain since 1973, as inventories plunged, adverse weather damaged…
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Cotton Specialists Expect Acreage Boom in 2011
If state cotton specialists’ initial estimates are correct, cotton will see a substantial surge in acreage for the 2011 growing…
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Comparing Today’s Cotton Market to the Mid-1990s
In some respects the fundamentals of the cotton market today are similar to those of the mid-1990s. World ending stocks…
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Cottonseed Oil Plays a Big Role in Giving French Fries a Makeover
The French fry, once relegated to a “side,” is emerging as a 2011 trend to watch, getting made over in…
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CAI Lowers Its Estimate of India’s Cotton Output
The Cotton Association of India (CAI), which has 446 members spanning the entire cotton value chain, released its new estimate…