The crop-year break.
A live board of delayed cotton quotes, macro legs, growing conditions and source-linked research, measured without direction.
ICE Cotton No. 2
Structure before interpretation.
The board records delayed per-contract closes, calendar spreads and the three external legs that frame carry and substitution context.
Growing conditions, region by region.
Thirty past days and seven forecast days for four US belts and four export origins.
Model outputOpen-Meteo gridded values, not station observations. The final seven columns in every strip are forecast.
Every measurement desk, one directory.
Each destination states the question it measures, the source family it uses and the address where it runs.
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Public Market Board
What the listed ICE curve, calendar spreads, macro legs and eight growing-region model runs currently measure.
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Cotton Basis Desk
Cash-futures spread, where it sits vs its own history, how past excursions resolved. Validated against Cotlook's published basis: exact on 295 of 297 days. 130 tests.
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Cert Stock & Carry Desk
What the calendar spread pays to store a bale vs what the rulebook says it costs, and whether certificated stock responds. Cross-checked on 5,033 observations with zero disagreements. 22 tests.
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Quality Premium Surface
What each tenderable quality is worth on the spot and delivery schedules.
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US Cotton Export Sales
Licensed data — authenticated accessExport sales and monthly raw-cotton customs flows against the USDA balance.
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Cotton Trade Radar
Monthly customs flows connected to USDA supply-and-demand balances.
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USDA Classing
Newly classed bales, quality mix, and tenderable/eligible share.
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EWR State Receipts
Daily certificated receipts and the open receipt book by state and crop year.
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Crop Progress & Conditions
USDA crop progress and condition ratings through the season.
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Global Cotton Weather
Azure hostedGlobal growing-region weather.
Third-party headline links.
Google News RSS aggregator links grouped by topic. Headlines remain the publishers' words and are not Bale Whisperer views.