By Steven H. Scott
Scott & Associates Agricultural Marketing, Inc.
Grain buyers and cotton buyers are sending a clear message to producers: “We are no longer willing to hedge price risk like we used to. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
China’s cotton production could be down 4 million bales in 2009, a result of the faltering global economy, higher subsidies for grain crops and declining seed cotton prices....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
This isn’t your grandfather’s commodity market, where bears and bulls play tug-o-war with a sturdy rope of supply and demand, and future price direction can be graphed with some degree of confidence....
By Steven H. Scott
Scott & Associates Agricultural Marketing, Inc.
On May 21, 2008, seven soybean futures contracts were traded at the Board of Trade in Chicago. ...
Producer expertise applied between the rows of a cotton field can go a long way toward making more pounds of lint. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A recent surge in cotton exports after a dip in the market should start to put some fundamental legs under the market and perhaps solidify a bottom for the low end of a trading range, according to analysts speaking at the January Ag Market Network teleconference....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extreme volatility in cotton prices in 2008 not only hurt producer confidence in the futures market, but eventually led to a loss of 30 percent of U.S. merchandizing capacity, according to Gary Taylor, president and CEO of Cargill Cotton Co. in Cordova, Tenn., speaking at the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If cotton prices have, in fact, bottomed out and begun what many hope will be a return to profitability, U.S. cotton producers may owe a debt of gratitude to “friends” in some rather unlikely places. ...
To educate cotton producers about options and futures contracts, and what they can do to increase their profitability potential for the 2009 crop season, Cotton Incorporated is holding a free “Hedging with Cotton Options” seminar in Raleigh, N.C., on Jan. 20....
U.S. farmers and their commodity organizations won’t have to spend as much time defending farm programs from claims they’re no longer needed because of high grain prices this year....
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