by Doug Mayo | Jan 17, 2020
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Old crop March futures closed over 71 cents today—the highest closing daily price in 8 months. How thankful we are as an industry for the recovery we’ve experienced when we once thought all was lost. Prices have...
by Ethan Carter | Jan 17, 2020
Over the last several years, many states across the Midwest and South have received extensive calls related to dicamba injury of sensitive crops from drift when it was used in over-the-top applications to fields of tolerant cotton and soybean. In 2018, the EPA called...
by external | Dec 20, 2019
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Slowly, the cotton market appears to be pulling out of the doldrums. The signs and signals are improving and, if actually realized, the timing certainly could not be better. Prices advanced to a high of almost...
by Michael Mulvaney | Dec 13, 2019
Irrigation is expensive. And there are a lot of non-irrigated or “dryland” acres across the Panhandle. 2019 was characterized by persistent drought stress for much of the season (see below). So in a dry year like 2019, what are you supposed to do to manage...
by Doug Mayo | Nov 22, 2019
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Market math can sometimes be confusing. Case in point—December futures have lost 2.37 cents this week. I read a story today lamenting the decline. December closed today at just under 62 cents (61.84). Well,...
by Ethan Carter | Nov 15, 2019
The second week of November has finally brought cold temperatures to the Panhandle, something needed to kill regrowth in cotton fields. The past several years we have had increasingly warm winters with few to no hard freezes. As a result, pest populations that would...
