Cotton Marketing News:  Strong Prices Continue with Few Hiccups

Cotton Marketing News: Strong Prices Continue with Few Hiccups

Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics   Most of the time, but not always, prices tend to trend down as we move closer to harvest.  It’s called seasonality, and for that reason, farmers like to price some portion of their crop prior to harvest. ...
Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

I’m a week behind schedule getting to this sixth installment of Rambling on Revenues. I wish my excuse was “life happens and sometimes the article doesn’t get written on time”. Unfortunately, this time death, not life, happened. I was away from work last week to try...
Cotton Marketing News:  Reports Continue to Feed Optimism

Cotton Marketing News: Reports Continue to Feed Optimism

Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics   Today’s monthly USDA numbers were a bit of a surprise and the weekly export report was good.  As a result, December futures gained over 2 cents today—pushing us to over 93 cents.  Don’t be surprised if the...