Ben McKnight Named 2025 Beltwide Cotton Specialist of The Year By Cotton Grower Staff | January 20, 2025. Ben McKnight (Photo: Jim Steadman) Ben McKnight, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife State Extension Cotton Specialist, was named the 2025 Beltwide Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year during the recent Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans, LA.

6 days ago · U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 9.6 million cotton acres this spring, down 14.5% from 2024, according to the National Cotton Council’s 44th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey.. Upland cotton intentions are 9.4 million acres, down 14.4% from 2024, while extra-long staple (ELS) intentions of 158,000 acres represent a 23.5% decline.

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Jan 28, 2025 · Jim Steadman | Beck Barnes. Cotton Companion: Cotton's New Year - What's Happened, What's New and What's Next for 2025?

Jan 13, 2025 · To kick off 2025, Dr. Darren Hudson of Texas Tech joins in on a discussion of how cotton fared following Washington DC's pre-holiday budget scramble, plus a look at the first cotton acreage projection of the year courtesy of Cotton Grower's annual acreage survey.

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2 days ago · CCI Officers (L to R) – Wayne Boseman, Richard Gaona, John King, Bruce Atherley, Carlo Bocardo and Lee Cromley (Photo: CCI) Carlo Bocardo, a cooperative official from Bakersfield, CA, will serve as Cotton Council International’s (CCI) president for 2025.. CCI is the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) export promotion arm and carries out programs in 50 plus countries under the COTTON USA ...

Feb 15, 2025 · Some cotton market watchers are predicting that the old crop March, May, and July futures contracts could bump the trading range to between 67 and 75 cents. Dr. O.A. Cleveland hopes they’re correct…but has his doubts.

4 days ago · Cotton Belt harvested area is estimated at 7.8 million acres for 2025 with a U.S. abandonment rate of 18.4%. Using the five-year average yield for each state generates a cotton crop of 13.9 million bales, with 13.5 million upland bales and 392,000 ELS bales.

Feb 10, 2025 · Dr. John Robinson, Professor and Extension Specialist/Cotton Marketing at Texas A&M University, will lead the Ag Market Network’s Cotton Market Roundtable discussion of the latest cotton market news on Tuesday, Feb. 11, following the release of USDA’s February 2025 supply and demand report.. The live broadcast begins at 1:30 pm CST.