(It takes roughly 1.5 pounds of cotton to make a single pair of jeans.) “Each of the six farmers is in a different geographic situation, which means the soil situation is different,” she says.

A cotton harvester at sunset in Batesville, Texas. (USDA photo) A new Senate bill would authorize tax credits designed to incentivize increased consumption of U.S. cotton and U.S. cotton ...

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, he discovered cotton growing wild. It wasn’t long before the crop found its way into American soil, with the first known cotton seeds ...

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