Insights and Stories on Cotton

U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer

Feb. 9, 2024 at 12:31 pm CST

An Arizona court decision that essentially prohibits American farmers from using dicamba for over-the-top spraying on soybeans and cotton will not stop Canadian growers from using the herbicide this year, says Bayer Crop Science Canada.

CBOT weekly outlook: Pointing towards more soybean acres in 2024/25

Jan. 24, 2024 at 4:34 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Sizzling heat stresses livestock, crops in southern U.S. Plains

Jul. 19, 2022 at 8:25 pm CDT

By Ashitha Shivaprasad Julie Ingwersen

Arkansas confirms first-ever glufosinate-resistant broadleaf

Feb. 22, 2021 at 7:32 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. EPA approves XtendiMax use for five years

Oct. 27, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

Study shows how U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by climate

Oct. 5, 2020 at 5:09 pm CDT

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Climate change could render swaths of agricultural land largely useless for farming in the U.S. South, and force Midwestern farmers to move corn and soybeans elsewhere as crop yields decline, researchers said on Monday. The profits of growing six key crops are set to […]

By Sonia Elks

Peach grower awarded US$265 million in dicamba drift suit

Feb. 17, 2020 at 11:36 am CST

Reuters — A Missouri jury’s US$265 million award to peach grower Bill Bader in his lawsuit against herbicide providers Bayer and BASF has raised the stakes for the two companies as at least 140 similar cases head to U.S. courts later this year. A jury in U.S. District Court in […]

By Reuters

U.S. regulators allow GM cotton as human food source

Oct. 11, 2019 at 10:02 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light for genetically modified cotton to be used for human consumption, paving the way for a protein-packed new food source — edible cottonseed that tastes a bit like chickpeas — that its developers said could help tackle global malnutrition. […]

By Will Dunham

Crown pension fund bids for Australian ag firm Webster

Oct. 3, 2019 at 3:00 pm CDT

Reuters — Australian agribusiness company Webster Ltd. said on Thursday it has signed a deal for a A$854 million (C$763.65 million) takeover by shareholder PSP Investments, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds. The walnut, cotton and livestock producer said the A$2 per share offer — a 57.5 per cent premium […]

By Reuters

Trump trade-war aid sows frustration in farm country

Sep. 13, 2019 at 6:44 pm CDT

Rochester, Minnesota | Reuters — The U.S. government is paying Texas cotton farmer J. Walt Hagood US$145 an acre for losses related to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies. But Minnesota soybean farmer Betsy Jensen will get just US$35 an acre. Both farmers’ sales have taken heavy blows in Trump’s […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

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Insights and Stories on Cotton

U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer

CBOT weekly outlook: Pointing towards more soybean acres in 2024/25

Sizzling heat stresses livestock, crops in southern U.S. Plains

Arkansas confirms first-ever glufosinate-resistant broadleaf

U.S. EPA approves XtendiMax use for five years

Study shows how U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by climate

Peach grower awarded US$265 million in dicamba drift suit

U.S. regulators allow GM cotton as human food source

Crown pension fund bids for Australian ag firm Webster

Trump trade-war aid sows frustration in farm country

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