Insights and Stories on Cotton

U.S. corn, soy acreage to expand in 2018-19, USDA says

Nov. 28, 2017 at 2:44 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers are likely to expand plantings of both corn and soybeans while reducing wheat seedings for the upcoming marketing year, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday. The USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist forecast that farmers will seed 91 million acres of corn in […]

Monsanto presses against Arkansas’ dicamba limits

Sep. 7, 2017 at 6:54 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

Sep. 7, 2017 at 11:46 am CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Renita D. Young

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

Aug. 29, 2017 at 6:32 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Theopolis Waters

U.S. farmers race to ready for Hurricane Matthew’s blast

Oct. 6, 2016 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Chris Prentice

Monsanto threatens to exit India over GM royalty row

Mar. 6, 2016 at 1:55 am CST

New Delhi | Reuters –– Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, threatened to pull out of India on Friday if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds. Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India), a joint venture with India’s Mahyco, licenses a […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

Smallest ag markets biggest winners in commodities rout

Dec. 31, 2015 at 4:11 pm CST

New York | Reuters –– Some of the smallest niche agricultural commodities were the biggest winners this year as weather and disease raised concerns about tightening supplies, spurring a buying spree as an exodus of institutional cash punished oil, metals and grains markets. Cocoa, cotton, sugar and frozen concentrated orange […]

By Luc Cohen

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