No just a bad crop overall. Any dry years we see that as big feed lots get it under contract quick



With a good crop it will be back down next year. Last couple years have been good but we will see these from time to time. Our local gins told me early they were getting no more than half of the cotton they got in last year so it makes sense

A couple of guys on a forum buying seed, isn't going to increase cottonseed price. DUH!

DUH. Everybody and his brother is now feeding CS. The whole world does not rotate around this forum. I remember years ago the gins would give it away just to get rid of what was not used to be used for CS meal. DUH.

corn is used by a lot of hunters too, and it's price still fluctuates. it's rising dramatically now from what I hear, based on china's purchasing of all grains.

From an October article. Basically the panhandle/south plains crop was ~50% of what it was in 2016. I believe this area grows half the state's cotton.


https://www.hpj.com/crops/cotton/co...a5cbd56-153d-11eb-8768-b37ca10ed0a6.html



Leighton Stovall, general manager at Moore County Gin in Dumas, Texas, said the cotton gin industry has also experienced some delays in the manufacturing of needed repair parts and supplies, but there has not been a significant impact thus far, especially since it has been the offseason for the gin industry. McKinney said the pandemic effected trucks coming to pick up cottonseed, but since they are an essential business it has not changed activity too much.

Cotton bales decline, gins struggle

“In the Texas High Plains and into the south Plains where there’s a lot of cotton acreage, there was about 4.25 million acres planted this last year,” Benavidez said. “So far only about 2.5 million acres are not listed as failed by the Farm Service Agency, so that means only half the original planted crop is expected to be harvested.”

Benavidez said the number of acres failed is likely to increase if the cold weather continues.

“In general, about 40% of all acres in our region have failed in terms of the cotton crop,” he continued. “Of the acres that have failed, 22% of them are irrigated and 52% of them are dryland, so that is a very large amount of cotton that’s not going to be going through gins and on into storage facilities.”

Benavidez said the regional yield for the Texas High Plains and the Southern Plains, is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 to 3 million bales—last year that number was about 3.9 million bales.

“It’s tough because we built all this cotton infrastructure and the last few years, the number of bales going through has declined due to weather impacts on the crop,” Benavidez said. “The previous five-year average bales ginned was about 5.3 million bales, but if you go back to 2016 or 2017, we were ginning over 6 million bales in this region.”

Thank you for providing me with a good laugh

That won't impact it at all. It's all based on people who buy it for feed lol.

It was a crap year up here for cotton this year. Alot of fallow fields and secondary crops

Maybe you need to look in the mirror and you can see the only one laughing.

And another laugh. Thank you sir lol

Do you think this will affect next years prices? we started getting cottonseed from Snook 2 years ago usually in September for winter feed, this year it was $10 more a ton at 230 a ton, i think.

It will for you if you’re getting it in September. Next years harvest won’t be ginned by then so you’ll be going off an even shorter supply of this past years cotton

the usage of cotton seed as cattle feed has gone up dramatically in the last decade or so and the pricing of it is really catching up to that

Cotton Seed Elevator

the above facility was built about 11 years ago for grain, but almost immediately they were big into cotton seed that is shipped as far as California for dairy feed

the big piles you see on the ground are all cotton seed loaded in mostly unit trains headed to wherever