Australia’s Cotton Crop Outlook Improves After Heavy Rains Industry group expects 2023-24 output at top end of estimate Wild weather has hit vast parts of nation’s east since October ...

About 90% of Australia’s cotton crop is irrigated. This changes each year depending on how much natural rainfall is received across the cotton-growing catchments.

Two of the world’s biggest crop traders are battling to acquire Australia’s largest cotton processor, hoping to strengthen their sources of supply and presence close to major global buyers in ...

More than five million bales are expected to stack up in favour of the cotton industry next year, with a “good proportion” of seeds planted already sold. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Nearly 30 years ago, Australia's first genetically modified field crop was planted: Bt cotton. CSIRO scientists helped develop this insect-resistant cotton variety, using a gene derived from a ...

IT IS now generally admitted that the world is confronted with a serious shortage of American cotton. It has taken three successive years of failure to convince the cotton trade that the conditions ...

PERRY — Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend of Florida on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane. It was one of the largest and fastest storms to ever make landfall in the continental ...

Picking has ramped up over the Easter period in a number of cotton producing valleys, with the bulk of the crop set to come off in coming weeks, with Cotton Australia expecting a national crop of ...

If we allow for one-third of the crop for our own manufactures, then this cotton crop of 1860 was worth at seaports $287,709,832. It was in this year the crop reached 5,000,000 of bales.

In the Macquarie Valley in NSW about 25 per cent of the crop has been picked, which is earlier than normal. “They’ve been getting some really good yields, 15-17 bales/ha is not uncommon,” Mr ...

Better Cotton released its 2023-24 Annual Report and launched public ... farmers and volumes of Better Cotton produced and pest infestations in Mali that affected up to 50% of the country’s cotton ...

In other words, the crop will be 100,000 pounds. Cotton has been selling in Nashville for $1 25 per pound. Suppose it falls to $1, and the crop would pay.