Cotton
Four species of cotton are grown for commercial fiber (lint) production. Gossypium arboreum L. and Gossypium herbaceum L. are grown in Africa and Asia. These produce lint of inferior quality. G...
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Cotton Fabric
Perhaps no other natural product has influenced the destiny of men as has cotton. It has clothed nations, enslaved men, monopolized labor, and given direction to entire industries.
The f...
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Elliot Colvin usually plants most of his 1,800 acres in cotton. But not this year.With corn prices up and cotton at break-even levels, the northeastern Louisiana farmer considers corn his best bet ...
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Growing cotton has rarely been a more risky proposition than it is now, which is precisely why cotton farmer Frank Williams is planning to sow his fields with wheat.From Williams' California fields...
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The cotton industry is concerned about a herbicide-resistant weed that spreads easily, can grow an inch a day and could force farmers to return to growing methods that were harsher on the environme...
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Louisiana farmers planted about half as many cotton acres as last year, and their fewest in over 30 years, as they seeded more land to corn and other higher-price crops, the U.S. Department of Agri...
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Brad Heffington has farmed cotton in West Texas for nearly two decades but he and other producers in the world's largest growing patch say this year has been odd.The weather has been cooler than He...
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The World Trade Organization has found that the United States failed to scrap a series of illegal subsidies paid to American cotton growers, a ruling that could open the door to billions of dollars...
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Cotton farmers in China's far west clashed with police and paramilitary guards over alleged price-fixing by local authorities, leaving 40 people injured, witnesses and a Hong Kong media report said...
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West Texas cotton producer Rickey Bearden lost all 4,000 of his dryland acres to drought, and the lack of rain made his irrigated crop just average."I'm considerably down from last year," he said. ...
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Cotton producer Weldon Melton has planted most of his fields, but the seedlings could be in trouble if cooler-than-normal temperatures continue.Melton, like a lot of farmers in the nation's leading...
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Cotton
Cotton Fabric
Cotton acreage expected to decline
