by Doug Mayo | Dec 11, 2015
While cotton futures prices are still in the long standing 62 to 67-cent trading range, prices made a nice “recovery” over the past few weeks. Prices (Mar16 futures) have “rallied” from the 60-cent threat back in October, and from just below 62 cents on Nov 23, to...
by Doug Mayo | Nov 20, 2015
Don Shurley, University of Georgia Cotton Economist If you don’t have a firm hold on things, sometimes it results in a fall. If you’re a deer hunter and have ever fallen out of a stand or slipped off the ladder going up or down, you know what I’m talking about....
by Doug Mayo | Nov 6, 2015
Cotton once again seems to be meandering in the muck and mire and going nowhere. The recent rally to near the 65-cent area fizzled out and prices have since retreated back near the “old support” area of roughly 62 cents. December futures actually closed the week on...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 16, 2015
Don Shurley, University of Georgia Cotton Economist The Tennessee Vols hammered my beloved Dawgs this past weekend. As it ends up, maybe my Dawgs are not all they were earlier cracked up to be—with or without their star running back. Rocky Top was a rocky road for the...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 25, 2015
Don Shurley, University of Georgia Cotton Economist New York Yankee great Yogi Berra died this week. One of the most famous of his Yogi-isms was “When you get to a fork in the road, take it.” Undoubtedly, cotton prices are at a fork in the road. Will prices be able to...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 18, 2015
Don Shurley, University of Georgia Cotton Economist Cotton growers continue to wait on anything that would push prices to the desired 70-cent level or better. To date, little marketing or price protection has taken place as producers seem willing to wait it out. This...
