Cotton Rallies as USDA Production Cut

Cotton futures were in rally mode on Tuesday, as USDA played a supportive role. Contracts were up 161 to 178 points at the close. The US dollar index was back down $0.466 to $97.895, as crude oil futures were down 86 cents.

USDA showed a total of 840,000 planted acres and 1.3 million harvested acres cut from cotton this morning with yield up 53 lbs to 862 lbs/ac. Production was still trimmed by 1.39 million bales to 13.21 million bales. That mixed with a 100,000 bale cut to old crop stocks to 4 million bales, helped to tighten the new crop stocks. That was down 1 million bales to 3.6 million with a 500,000 bale cut to exports.Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.

The weekly Crop Progress report from NASS showed conditions down 2% at 53% gd/ex, with the Brugler500 index falling 7 points to 338. Conditions in TX were down 8, with GA slipping 3 points.

The Seam reported 2,638 bales sold on the Monday online auction at an average price of 70.47 cents/lb. The Cotlook A Index was back up 25 points at 78.00 cents on August 11. ICE cotton stocks were steady on 8/11, with the certified stocks level at 18,242 bales. USDA’s Adjusted World Price (AWP) was down 13 points on Thursday afternoon at 54.39 cents/lb.

Oct 25 Cotton closed at 67.07, up 178 points,

Dec 25 Cotton closed at 68.39, up 163 points,

Mar 26 Cotton closed at 69.84, up 161 points On the date of publication, Austin Schroeder did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. For more information please view the Barchart Disclosure Policy here.

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