In Cotton Incorporated the Monthly Economic Letter, it stated that the USDA’s latest world agricultural supply and demand estimates bring shifts in the global cotton outlook for the 2025/26 crop year, with production forecasts raised by 1.4 million cotton bales to 118.4 million.
China alone is set for a 1 million bale increase to 31 million for the crop year, and the US expects a 600,000 bale rise to 14.6 million, offsetting reductions in Pakistan. Global mill-use is lifted by 365,000 bales to 118.1 million, with Pakistan’s consumption revised upward by 300,000 bales, now totalling 10.9 million.
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