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Related Keywords: apparel, bales, Brazil, China, clothing, cotton, exports, fiber, market, production, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, world

Cotton is perhaps the most recognized fiber in the apparel market, and is used, either in its pure form or blended with other materials, to make much of the world’s clothing.

The soft, fluffy staple fiber grows in a boll around the seeds of a cotton plant, and the fiber is nearly pure cellulose, the most abundant organic polymer on Earth. Fibers from the cotton plant are spun into yarn or thread and made into fiber, yielding soft, breathable textiles. Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber in clothing today.

Related Keywords: acres harvested for 2017, cotton production, Cotton yields, increasingly becoming a national player, Mississippi is third in forecast acreage, Oklahoma, Oklahoma is narrowing the gap, projected to climb into fourth place, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA

Oklahoma is increasingly becoming a national player in cotton production and is projected to climb into fourth place in acres harvested for 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Mississippi is third in forecast acreage and is expected to harvest 95,000 more acres than Oklahoma, down from 140,000 more acres the year before, according to the USDA, but Oklahoma is narrowing the gap, said Harvey Schroeder, executive director of the Oklahoma Cotton Council, which is based in Frederick in southwest Oklahoma.

Related Keywords: after years of struggling, bring state revenue, Cotton County, cotton fluffy white stuff returns in force, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Cotton Council, this years production up by fiftey one percent, through dry conditions, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USA

Cotton County, Oklahoma , USA after years of struggling through dry conditions, the cotton fluffy white stuff has returned in force with 2016 production up by 51 percent than production during the last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The total haul came out to well over half a million bales. The number is an estimate based on production through November.

Oklahoma Cotton Council executive director Harvey Schroeder said that the state’s cotton crop has been the beneficiary of auspicious rains and a warm September.

Related Keywords: chosen to rely on U.S. cotton, despite global popularity of Egyptian cotton, deteriorating quality of Egyptian cotton, Egyptian extra-long staple cotton, Foreign Agricultural Service, local textile manufacturers, Pima cotton, short and medium staple varieties, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. exports of lint cotton to Egypt has increased

The U.S. exports of lint cotton to Egypt has increased by 30 percent or USD 12.282 million to reach USD 40 million in the past year compared to USD 27,733 million in 2014 as local textile manufacturers have chosen to rely on U.S. cotton, according to a report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) despite global popularity of Egyptian cotton by virtue of the country’s long history in growing the cotton crop.

Related Keywords: . Investors betting the land, cotton prices plumping up, create temporary shortage of quality fiber, difficult to plant crops, harvest delayed, heavy rains hit, largest cotton growing state in US, Texas, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Heavy rains have hit Texas, the largest cotton-growing state in the U.S. Most of the cotton is grown in West Texas, which is recovering from a four-year drought. Many areas haven’t seen more than two days in a row without rain this month, which has made it difficult to plant crops. If crop yields in Texas are lower or if the harvest is delayed and the maturing crop gets too wet from seasonal rains, it could create a temporary shortage of quality fiber.

Related Keywords: China to end stockpiling program, cotton consumption, cotton prices, create jobs, fiber to be imported, invest billions of dollars, NDRC, store in state reserves, Subsidies, textile factories, U.S. Department of Agriculture, weak market price, XPCC

China has assured to end a costly stockpiling program that has artificially exaggerated cotton prices. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) reluctant to accept the current weak market price, has urged the government to buy part of its crop and store it in state reserves, said two trade sources with knowledge of the issue.

XPCC, also known as the army corps, or 'bingtuan', has become a sort of state within a state and gained a dominant role in industries such as cotton, where it employs about 200,000 mainly Han Chinese on some of Xinjiang's best land.

Related Keywords: apparel, China policy, cotton fiber, cotton price, spot cotton prices, U.S. Department of Agriculture, US average spot price, yarn and garment producer

On the outlook that China will start releasing its huge reserves of cotton fiber, and on forecasts of weakening demand for apparel in key markets around the world, there is have been a drop in spot cotton prices since the beginning of July.

The seven-market U.S. average spot price has declined by almost $0.06 in the first two weeks of July, 7 percent below its price at the end of June and $0.17 (20 percent) below the recent high it reached in early May.