COTTON SPIN: | Farm Progress
USDA projects tight outcomes for both the old and new crop marketing years. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Last year at this time, I wrote a column titled “Burdensome old and new crop cotton stocks.” This year the benchmark May WASDE is showing the opposite. This report from USDA projects tight outcomes for both the ‘20/’21 (“old crop”) and ‘21/’22 (“new crop”) marketing years. Let’s start with the world numbers. The old crop world numbers reflected modest tightening compared to April. On the supply side, world carry-in was lowered...