Cotton's Rebound In Georgia
Jimmy Webb
Leary, Ga.
We asked him if he found out what it was, and he said it was a mama boll weevil beating her son because he was only taking one row at a time!
That's a funny story, but it ought to tell any outsider how important it was for cotton farmers to eliminate that deadly insect pest.
Cotton is such an important crop for our small communities. The biggest boom for rural Georgia is how many times a bale of cotton turns over in the local economy. That doesn't happen with grain crops. You could al-most say cotton is an economic stimulus for rural Georgia when cotton is king.
We did dip down under one million acres in 2008 but came back to one million acres in 2009, and I think we'll always be at that level or higher for the foreseeable future.
source : cottonfarming
Jimmy Webb
Leary, Ga.
We asked him if he found out what it was, and he said it was a mama boll weevil beating her son because he was only taking one row at a time!
That's a funny story, but it ought to tell any outsider how important it was for cotton farmers to eliminate that deadly insect pest.
Cotton is such an important crop for our small communities. The biggest boom for rural Georgia is how many times a bale of cotton turns over in the local economy. That doesn't happen with grain crops. You could al-most say cotton is an economic stimulus for rural Georgia when cotton is king.
We did dip down under one million acres in 2008 but came back to one million acres in 2009, and I think we'll always be at that level or higher for the foreseeable future.
source : cottonfarming
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