Cotton's Global Weather Implications
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Weather and agriculture. It’s the circle that goes round and round and round and round. Today we’re taking that whirly ride in the world of cotton. Eric Snodgrass, Science Fellow and Principal Atmospheric Scientist with Nutrien Ag Solutions…
“We still need to be looking outside of the Cotton Belts down to South America. They grow a lot of cotton in Bahia which is kind of in the north central/northeastern part of Brazil. Majority of it's grown in Mato Grosso which is north central. They're doing fine on their planting of soybeans which means they're probably going to get a Safrinha cotton crop put in at a decent time, but Bahia, which is probably responsible for about maybe 20% of the total crop, they're behind on soybeans and very ,very dry. Unless that changes that might just mix up some of the acreage and they may prefer to go to corn over cotton given that the risk.”
Internationally, he says El Nino equals drought risk for Australia…
“They grow a lot of cotton so we got to keep an eye on them. And then it'll be interesting to see how we finish this upcoming winter to see what next spring would hold for India and China. I mean the two biggest cotton producers and to see if they end up having a more aggressive Indian monsoon next year and how much rain can get into the interior of China. All things that still need to be watched.”
Eric Snodgrass, Nutrien Ag Solutions.
