Cotton’s Weather Market Has the Bulls on Parade

Now, that dry pattern in the American Southwest, combined with similar conditions across key growing regions of Brazil and elsewhere, they've had quite the impact on cotton prices here in the late spring season.

To quote our great friend OA Cleveland from his column this week, which you can find on cottongrower.com, OA said, "With nearly two-thirds of the world's cotton trade accounted for by the US and Brazil, the health of those two crops will continue to dominate market activity." Now, now that's the end of OA's quote, this is ...

quote.

This is me speaking again.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've noticed that that already starting to take place.

Prices have surged.

A new crop December contract prices climbed to dang near 85 cents for last week, the week that ended May 1.

And to that we say hallelujah, and keep that coming.

Let's have more of that.

Uh, this news would not surprise you, though, if you had read our February cover story here at Cotton Grower magazine.

Now, I wrote that feature story.

It was titled Cotton Readies for a Breakout Performance, uh, after I spent some time with Dr. John Robinson, an extension economist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services.

Uh, so don't hear what I'm not saying.

Listen, I personally did not predict this bullish, positive price climb back in January, uh, but my guest today did.

Uh, that's right, I'm gonna be talking with Dr. John Robinson again, uh, later in this episode to analyze what we've seen out of the cotton market and to discuss where we might go from here.

So please stick around for that interview.

You are not gonna want to miss it.