TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Producers are trying to make planting decisions right now. Could cotton be a good bet for 2020? “[The markets] have rebounded some from the [low] 60 cent level,” says Ashley Arrington, founder of Agri Authority . “We’ve spent a good bit of time in the 60 to 65 cent range. We hit 70 cents but it still isn’t that exciting.” Arrington says cotton needs to be profitable and those levels aren’t exactly profitable for farmers in the South. She says producers need to make irrigation decisions sooner rather than later. That decision could be the difference between planting cotton or corn. “We don’t plant cotton until May but if [farmers] are going to rotate, we need to make more decisions,” says Arrington. She says another part of the equation is equipment costs. Arrington says farmers can’t let a big piece of equipment sit idle, especially if it’s used for planting and harvesting cotton. “[Growers] are not going to completely drop off from cotton,” says Arrington. “[However,], they will decr...

Press release... Current information obtained by the Farmer Registration System (ÇKS), it is estimated that 590 thousand hectares of cotton have been planted this season... Accordingly, cotton cultivation areas increased by 14 percent compared to last season (TurkStat 2018 Planted Area data: 518 thousand hectares). This year, during the cotton sowing period, especially in April, despite adverse weather conditions and the re-planting due to this, climatic conditions were quite favorable. In the period from October to the present, the heat accumulation values ​​have been at the same levels as the average for many years in all cotton regions. In the coming period, if there is no abnormal phenomenon in the fight against climate, water supply, diseases and pests, we can say that the yields of the field and the cotton yield will be higher than last season. Thus, we hope that the goal of producing one MILLION TONS of fiber cotton, which we anticipated last year but could no...