Specialists Speaking Brian Pieralisi / MISSISSIPPI Variety selection should be at the forefront of cotton farmers’ to-do lists. Like most years, there are several new varieties hitting the market with limited third-party performance data. In Mississippi State’s On-Farm cotton variety demonstration,...

Specialists Speaking Ben McKnight / TEXAS Looking forward to the 2026 growing season, perhaps the most important decision growers will make about next year’s crop is the varieties they will plant and manage for the remainder of the season. With so...

Karn Dhingra / Communications Specialist / Texas A&M University Texas Crop and Weather Report Texas row crop producers are heading into planting season amid early weather uncertainty, shifting price relationships in major commodities, and ongoing economic pressure from high input costs,...

DR. John R.C. Robinson Professor and Extension Specialist for Cotton Marketing It is never too early to develop a marketing plan for the next crop year. Longer run price outcomes for the 2026 crop depend on expectations of supply and...

By Grant Saum, Mid-South Regional Communications Manager, The Cotton Board Across the Mid-South, Cotton Incorporated continues to invest in the future of cotton through its Agricultural and Environmental Research Division, funding projects that directly impact grower profitability and sustainability. Through two...

Brenda Ortiz, UC Merced / ucmerced.edu From colorful scraps to soil-like material, a groundbreaking two-year research study explores the journey of cotton textiles through composting. UC Merced researchers are collaborating on a two-year research project to develop effective composting methods for...

Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist In 2026, provisions of an improved ARC/PLC income safety net and higher loan rates in the OBBBA will fully kick in.  Payments from the 2025 crop year will be received in October 2026.  Producers will...

Anthony Bly / SDSU Extension Soils Field Specialist Written collaboratively by Debankur Sanyal, Johnathon Wolthuizen and Anthony Bly. Soil has always been considered as a living system due to its biological components: fungi, bacteria and plant roots. While physical properties maintain...

Rosemary Brandt / Senior Director, Strategic Communications & Creative Services / arizona.edu Cotton is a famously thirsty crop, yet Arizona is one of the top U.S. producers. But how does a crop that thrives on water and humidity manage to...

Linda Geist /Sr. Strategic Communications Consultant / College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, MU Stink bugs vary in size and shape, but they are generally described as having shield-shaped bodies. Adult green stink bugs are usually light green. The...

DR. Cheryl Mackowiak Associate Professor Soil and Water Science North Florida Research and Education Center Fertilizer source is one of the four Rs of fertilizer management (Right source, Right place, Right time, and Right placement). Mineral fertilizers are typically synthesized (i.e., nitrogen from the...

DR. John R.C. Robinson / Professor and Extension Specialist for Cotton Marketing /  cottonmarketing.tamu.edu Through Friday, January 16, ICE cotton futures stepped up from the mid-64-cent level, bounced off the 65.20ish level multiple times, then gyrated back down to where...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Dec. 13, 2025) — New cotton varieties named to the Deltapine® Class of ’26 provide growers more planting options for proven performance potential in leading trait systems. “The Class of ’26 includes four additional Deltapine varieties with NPE-grower-proven...

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA Snider’s research lays the groundwork for improving cotton genetics, dovetailing closely with that of UGA cotton breeder Peng Chee, whose mission is to develop high-performing cotton with genetics tailored to the Southeast. While Snider investigates how specific traits...

Approved by USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board Economic Research Service | Situation and Outlook ReportNext release isJanuary14, 2026CWS-25k|December 11, 2025 Leslie Meyer and Taylor Dew Global 2025/26Cotton Ending Stocks Rise asProduction Remains Above Mill Use The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...