News Tags

Related Keywords: conventional cotton cultivation, cotton farmer, fabric, fashion industry, fibre production, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Health Institute, sustainable cotton, sustainable farming practices, US cotton farmers, Wrangler

Wayne Honeycutt, president and chief executive of the Soil Health Institute, said that, “I’m grateful Wrangler has taken up this cause, because the potential to transform agricultural lands with soil health practices is tremendous.” He added that,”If farmers adopt these practices globally, we’ll have much greater resiliency in our food and fibre production. We’ll also have cleaner water and air, and we can draw carbon out of the air to regenerate our soils for current and future generations.”

Related Keywords: cotton farming, National Cotton Council, NCC survey, smallest cotton acreage, US cotton farmers, weak market price, worlds biggest exporter

The National Cotton Council (NCC) expects cotton farming in the world's biggest exporter to fall to 9.4 million acres in 2015. That would be the smallest cotton acreage since 2009, according to U.S. government data.

U.S. cotton farmers are expected to reduce acreage by nearly 15 percent this year as weak market prices force them to switch to other crops.

The NCC survey, widely watched as one of the earliest indicators of the next season's production, is based on a questionnaire mailed in mid-December to producers across the 17-state cotton belt.