As 2025 cotton planting begins, price prospects for new crop cotton are entirely in the hands of Mother Nature.

"The world cotton market cycles up and down as prices provide an incentive to get farmers to plant more, and then higher prices kind of cure that, and prices go down, and then farmers plant less ...

plant pathologist Linda Smith said reniform nematodes stunted the cotton plant. "The [nematode breeding] cycle goes on over and over and over through the season," Dr Smith said. Growers facing the ...