11.   Damage to the cotton crop would amid forecasts from the USDA for strong domestic and world demand.

12.   El Nino, the weather event that disrupts normal patterns, has had no effect on the Indian cotton crop.

13.   Even with a larger cotton crop, cotton prices surged because the USDA also projected stronger demand, both from domestic mills and foreign markets.

14.   Excessively dry weather took its toll on cotton crops in Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa, said Terry Townsend, statistician at the International Cotton Advisory Council.

15.   Farmers in the counties are now eligible for low-interest loans through the department on their next cotton crop, which could replace loans by commercial banks.

16.   Excessively dry weather took its toll on cotton crops in Argentina, Paraguay and South Africa, said Terry Townsend, statistician at the International Cotton Advisory Council.

17.   For starters, a boll weevil is a pest, a beetle whose larvae destroys cotton crops.

18.   Greg Calhoun scuffs his boot through the sand where two months ago a thick cotton crop flourished in rich topsoil.

19.   He is to baseball what the boll weevil is to your basic cotton crop.

20.   He was just an irritating cross they bore, like mosquitoes in the spring and a poor cotton crop.