Cotton futures rose on Friday on worries that adverse weather could have affected ongoing crop harvest in the United States, with prices also supported by a weaker dollar, even as traders awaited direction from the upcoming US presidential election.
"They've had some rains in Texas plains. They may have had a little hail, so we might have lost some cotton there," said Keith Brown, principal at cotton brokers Keith Brown and Co in Moultrie, Georgia, adding "but generally speaking, we're waitin