Cotton fell to 61.55 USd/Lbs on December 2, 2025, down 2.03% from the previous day. Over the past month, Cotton's price has fallen 6.28%, and is down 13.31% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Cotton - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

In the 2020 calendar year, the global average price of cotton - from a selection of the principal upland cottons - stood at **** U.S. cents per pound. The global price of cotton was at its peak in the 2011 crop year, with an average price of *** cents per pound. Cotton in the U.S. The average farm price in the United States received by cotton growers, has been growing in the past few years. The United States is the leading global cotton exporter, and is among the leading cotton producers worldwide after India and China. As of 2017/2018, the United States produced about ** percent of cotton globally. Cottonseeds market Worldwide cottonseed production amounted to about **** million metric tons in 2018/2019, decreasing from around ** million metric tons in the previous year. In that year, India and China were by far the main cottonseed producers worldwide, followed by Pakistan and Brazil.

This statistic shows the average cotton price per pound as received by U.S. farmers from 2007 to 2024. In the 2023 calendar year, a U.S. cotton farmer received an average price of 79 cents per one pound of upland cotton.

Graph and download economic data for Global price of Cotton (PCOTTINDUSDM) from Jan 1990 to Jun 2025 about cotton, World, and price.

Monthly and long-term cotton price data (US¢/lb): historical series and analyst forecasts curated by FocusEconomics.

Graph and download economic data for Global price of Cotton (PCOTTINDUSDQ) from Q1 1990 to Q2 2025 about cotton, World, and price.

This statistic shows the upland spot cotton price per pound in the United States from 1990 to 2018. In calendar year 2017, the average spot price per one pound of upland cotton was about 86.4 U.S. cents.

United States Long Term Projections: Upland Cotton: Farm Price data was reported at 0.690 USD/lb in 2034. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.700 USD/lb for 2033. United States Long Term Projections: Upland Cotton: Farm Price data is updated yearly, averaging 0.690 USD/lb from Dec 2022 (Median) to 2034, with 13 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.848 USD/lb in 2022 and a record low of 0.660 USD/lb in 2025. United States Long Term Projections: Upland Cotton: Farm Price data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Department of Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.RI012: Agricultural Projections: Upland Cotton.

Graph and download economic data for Wholesale Price of Cotton Yarn, Mills for United States (M0400CUSM267NNBR) from Jan 1947 to Aug 1956 about cotton, mills, wholesale, and USA.

Dataset Information

This dataset includes daily price data for various commodities.

  Instruments Included

BDIY: Baltic Dry Index BEEF: Beef (dollars per pound) BIT: Bitumen (dollars per metric ton) C1: Corn (dollars per bushel) CC1: Cocoa (dollars per metric ton) CHE: Cheese (dollars per pound) CL1: Crude Oil (dollars per barrel) CO1: Brent Crude Oil (dollars per barrel) CRYTR: CRB Index CT1: Cotton (cents per pound) DA: Milk (dollars per hundredweight) DL1: Ethanol… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/paperswithbacktest/Commodities-Daily-Price.

Content

File1: Time series of commodity futures from 2000 until present. Includes 23 different commodities. File2: Categories for each commodity.

All prices are quoted in Euros.

The different commodities included in the commodity_prices.csv file are described below:

1. Energy

a/ Natural Gas: quoted in EUR/MMBtu.
b/ Low Sulphur Gas Oil: quoted in EUR/MT.
c/ WTI Crude: quoted in EUR/barrel.
d/ Brent Crude: quoted in EUR/barrel.
e/ ULS Diesel: quoted in EUR/gallon.
f/ Gasoline: quoted in EUR/gallon.

2. Industrial Metals

a/ Copper: quoted in EUR/lb.
b/ Aluminum: quoted in EUR/MT.
c/ Zinc: quoted in EUR/MT.
d/ Nickel: quoted in EUR/MT.

3. Precious Metals

a/ Gold: quoted in EUR/t oz.
b/ Silver: quoted in EUR/t oz.

4. Grains

a/ Corn: quoted in EUR/bushel.
b/ Soybeans: quoted in EUR/bushel.
c/ Wheat: quoted in EUR/bushel.
d/ Soybean Oil: quoted in EUR/lb.
e/ Soybean Meal: quoted in EUR/T.
f/ HRW Wheat: quoted in EUR/bushel.

5. Livestock

a/ Live cattle: quoted in EUR/lb.
b/ Lean Hogs: quoted in EUR/lb.

6. Softs

a/ Sugar: quoted in EUR/lb.
b/ Coffee: quoted in EUR/lb.
c/ Cotton: quoted in EUR/lb.

Inspiration:

Collated for a personal ML project. Plan to update it weekly.

Source:

Web-scraped from multiple sources.