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U.S. Cotton: Futures Close Thursday with Gains
Barchart: Cotton futures gained 22 to 61 points on Thursday, while crude oil rose about 3% and the dollar firmed slightly. The Seam sold 4,555 bales on November 4 at an average of 76.34 cents/lb. ICE certified stocks rose by 1,038 bales to 66,716 bales. Dec 26 settled at 78.71 (+60), Mar 27 at 82.55 (+59) and May 27 at 84.06 (+50).
Source: Barchart
U.S. Cotton: Export Sales Jump on Vietnamese Buying, Shipments at Season Low
USDA: Net upland sales for 2026/27 totaled 277,500 RB in the week ended October 29, up 28% from the previous week and 53% above the prior four-week average. Vietnam dominated with 200,500 RB, followed by Pakistan (30,700 RB), Turkey (18,300 RB), Peru (7,700 RB) and India (5,100 RB). Upland shipments fell 14% to 137,800 RB, a marketing-year low and 16% below the four-week average, mainly to Vietnam (43,500 RB), Mexico (20,600 RB), Pakistan (15,900 RB), Bangladesh (13,900 RB) and India (8,100 RB). Pima sales were 6,400 RB and shipments 7,100 RB, 18% above the four-week average.
Source: USDA FAS
U.S.: Bollgard Technology Celebrates 30 Years
Farm Progress – Whitney Shannon: Bollgard, the Bt technology commercially released by Monsanto in 1996 and now a Bayer product, was the answer to a crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the tobacco budworm had become uncontrollable across the Cotton Belt. Together with boll weevil eradication, it created a pest management system that let growers exploit the full season length and improve fruit retention, says Bayer entomologist Jay Mahaffey. Key milestones included the "triple nickel" Deltapine 555 BG/RR variety in 2003, Bollgard II in 2005, Deltapine 1646, which became the most widely planted variety in modern times, and later Bollgard 3 and ThryvOn technology.
Source: Farm Progress
Europe: EURATEX and Global Fashion Agenda Form Strategic Alliance
EURATEX: The European Apparel and Textile Confederation and Global Fashion Agenda have launched a strategic alliance to deepen cooperation on sustainability and competitiveness in Europe's textile and clothing industry. The partners will align their policy positions, push for regulation that is ambitious but practical to implement, and focus on circularity, recycling, textile waste and consistent global sustainability standards. EURATEX will bring its manufacturing network to the Circularity Blueprint launched by GFA earlier this year, and the two will hold joint events, starting with one on incentives for circular business models.
Source: EURATEX
Egypt: Cotton Exports Rise on Stronger Demand
Adalytica: Egyptian cotton exports in the 2025/26 season reached 64,060 tonnes worth more than $205 million, up from 39,216 tonnes in the previous comparable period, with 2,365 tonnes allocated through five companies in the final week. Cotton area rose to about 205,000 feddans from 195,000 a year earlier. Exporters still face higher insurance costs and vessels rerouted around Africa because of regional security concerns, but firm prices support a stronger start to the new marketing year.
Source: Adalytica
Türkiye: Southeastern Anatolian Cotton to Be Showcased at COP31
TRT World – Anadolu Agency: Türkiye will present cotton from its southeast, which produces more than half of the country's crop, at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya on November 9–20. The Better Cotton project, coordinated by the GAP Regional Development Administration and implemented by UNDP, covered more than 123,500 acres and over 2,100 farmers in five years, raising yields by about 20% while cutting fertiliser use by about 30% and irrigation needs by about 45%. The gains were especially strong in the Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır plains.
Source: TRT World
Uzbekistan: Record Seed Cotton Harvest Above 5 Million Tonnes
UzDaily: Uzbekistan harvested a record of more than 5 million tonnes of seed cotton, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said, with the average yield rising from 21 to 56 centners per hectare. About 400,000 hectares averaged 70 centners and some 70,000 hectares reached 100–110 centners per hectare. The gains are attributed to changes in planting patterns, two to three times higher plant populations, new biotech varieties resistant to bollworm and herbicides, digitalisation and drones. About 85% of the crop was picked mechanically by more than 3,000 harvesters, cotton area has fallen 38% in recent years and water use is half the 1990s level. The target for 2027 is 65–70 centners per hectare.
Source: UzDaily
Turkmenistan: Turkish Buyers Sign $1.8 Million Cotton Lint Deal
Trend – Fuad Namazov: Turkish businesspeople agreed to buy cotton lint from Turkmen sellers worth about $1.8 million at the October 26 session of Turkmenistan's State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange. The exchange, founded in 1994, is the country's main organised marketplace for foreign trade, registering export and import contracts and publishing official quotations.
Source: Trend
Africa: Cotton Partners Launch Drive for Textile and Garment Investment
WTO: The Cotton Partnership (PPC), co-convened by the WTO and UNIDO with partners including the ITC, ICAC, ILO, ITFC and Afreximbank, has launched an investment drive to help the C-4+ countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Côte d'Ivoire) move from exporting raw lint to garment manufacturing. A UNIDO and ITC assessment identified potential investment of $12 billion over ten years, including $5 billion from the private sector, which could create about 500,000 direct jobs for women and youth and 1.5 million indirect jobs. More than ten bankable projects have already been prepared, and UNIDO will target investors in China and Türkiye through the Africa Textile Invest platform. The first spinning mills and garment factories in the region are the target outcome.
Source: WTO
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