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1 week ago | 
cottongrower.com | Jim Steadman |O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Larry Stalcup
The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation has announced the 2025-crop loan rate differentials for upland and extra-long staple cotton. The differentials, also referred to as loan rate premiums and discounts, were calculated based on market valuations of various cotton quality factors for the prior three years.
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1 week ago | 
cottongrower.com | Jim Steadman |O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Larry Stalcup
The BASF FiberMax One Ton Club honored 56 qualifying cotton growers and their families during its annual banquet in Lubbock, TX, on Apr. 3. Now in its 20th years, the One Ton Club recognizes cotton farmers who produce yields of one ton or more during a given year using FiberMax cotton varieties. All three FiberMax cotton varieties introduced for the 2024 growing season (FM 765AX, FM 868AXTP and FM 823AXTP) were used by farmers who achieved this year’s One Ton Club status.
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2 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | Jim Steadman |O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Larry Stalcup
URBN is the latest global brand to join the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol. The company’s portfolio features global consumer brands including Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, FP Movement, and Nuuly. Joining the Trust Protocol underscores URBN’s dedication to environmental and social responsibility, including its goal of sourcing 100% of its cotton from responsible sources by 2027 and ensuring that 60% of all direct-sourced raw materials come from responsible sources by the same year.
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2 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup
USDA has released its April 2025 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Here’s this month’s summary of the U.S. domestic and global cotton balance sheets. In this month’s 2024/25 U.S. cotton balance sheet, the only changes are a 100,000-bale reduction in exports to 10.9 million bales and an increase in ending stocks of the same amount to 5.0 million bales. The projected 2024/25 season average upland farm price is unchanged at 63 cents per pound.
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3 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup
Farmers say they intend to plant 9.87 million acres of cotton this year – down 11.8% from last year. This is based on a survey of producers conducted by USDA during the first two weeks of March. These estimates reflect farmer “intentions” as of the survey period. This 9.87 million acres compares to 9.56 million acres estimated by the National Cotton Council in mid-February and 10.0 million acres projected in the USDA Outlook Forum later in February.
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3 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | O.A. Cleveland |Don Shurley |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup
The cotton market teased us again with the old crop May contract nearing the 68-cent mark and very active trading above 67 cents. However, the May backed off and settled the week slightly below 67 cents. It’s okay for the market to wear a 68-cent smile, but don’t get used to seeing prices that high…at least just not yet. The July contract can see some trading there, but the May contract remains weighted down by the bearishness of the on-call purchases.
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4 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | Bill Robertson |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup |O.A. Cleveland
In most parts of the Cotton Belt, planting may still be another month away. That also means growers should be ready for their best opportunity to help manage some yield-sapping problems. “We have seedling diseases, nematodes, and, in some cases, cotton leafroll dwarf virus,” says Bob Kemerait, University of Georgia Extension Plant Pathologist. “I know growers get tired of hearing me say it, but you get really one good chance for control.
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4 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | Bill Robertson |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup |O.A. Cleveland
OutReach SC Nematicide, a soil-applied biological nematicide, is EPA-registered and now available from Valent U.S.A. for use in cotton and peanuts. OutReachis a unique mycorrhizal-based formulation that contains Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, which provides cotton and peanut growers protection against plant-parasitic nematodes while contributing to plant health benefits.
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4 weeks ago | 
cottongrower.com | Lara Sowinski |Larry Steckel |Jim Steadman |Larry Stalcup
With dicamba off the market for 2025, Beltwide weed scientists continue juggling other herbicides to control weeds in XtendFlex-based varieties bred with dicamba resistance. Whether it’s dicamba-tolerant or Enlist varieties, glufosinate combined with residuals are a must to control weeds, says Maxwell Smith, Oklahoma State University Extension IPM Specialist. “The key is using residuals,” says Smith.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
agweb.com | Larry Stalcup |Cheyenne Kramer |Michelle Rook |Margy Eckelkamp
Late-season rain cut into cotton harvest across west Texas and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. It was another chapter in a year where too much early and mid-season rain inhibited growth, and drought and long runs of 100-degree days parched peak season production. In the first 20 days of November, fields near Lubbock received 4” of rain or more. Normal November rainfall is less than 1”, says Ken Lege, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension cotton specialist.
