Resource Directory
Tap directly into the extensive research library of Cotton Incorporated. Here, you can filter your results by category, sort them by date and select your preferred media type to streamline the resources you see.
The Cotton Marketing Planner
This website focuses on farm-level implementation of strategies for Texas cotton growers to deal with yield and price risk. Growers around the U.S., however, can also learn about basics of marketing plans, which are grower contingency plans for uncertain market situations.
Texas Cotton Basis Tool
Basis is the difference between a cash price and the futures price of a particular commodity on a given futures exchange. This tool provides basis information for cotton, wheat, corn, sorguhm and soybean in Texas.
Cotton Budgets – Texas
Each year, the Texas A&M Extension service creates projected budgets for cotton growers to use for planning purposes.
Oklahoma State University Cotton Fact Sheets
OSU Extension has created a variety of fact sheets from general production information, to pest management guides, to pros and cons of specific herbicides.
Cotton Foliar Diseases
This online resource from the University of Tennesee provides a key to differentiating spots as well as information about specific diseases.
Whole Cottonseed
This site provides good background on whole cottonseed as a feed ingredient, especially for dairy cows. It is also a place for cottonseed sellers and buyers to connect online.
Weekly Cotton Crop Quality Report
Track fiber quality of U.S. cotton over time through this weekly report, which compares the week’s quality reports with the same time period during the previous year.
Monthly Economic Letter
This unique analysis parses the latest events affecting the world cotton supply-and-demand situation and world cotton prices.
Monthly Cottonseed Prices
This web page supplies monthly cottonseed prices by region and supply/demand estimates.
Cotton Crop Quality
This is the Cotton Incorporated hub for information related to U.S. cotton fiber quality, including a guide to the cotton properties legend, most planted varieties, and weekly and annual quality reports.
Texas Cotton Production Information
This Texas A&M University website contains information on key areas of cotton production and management for Southwestern producers. It provides a number of helpful decision aids, tools and publications.
Site-Specific Management of Cotton Root Rot Using Airborne and Satellite Imagery and Variable Rate Technology
This bulletin is an introduction to using aerial imagery to more economically manage cotton root rot, a highly virulent soil-borne disease. After reading this, growers may wish to consult with a retailer, distribution or precision data management specialist for assistance in translating aerial images into prescription-treatment application instructions for use by a variable rate applicator.
