21.   It would be the sixth largest cotton crop ever.

22.   James Kowis says he first began seeing signs the cotton crop was in trouble last month, when he noticed farmers had stopped irrigating their fields.

23.   Last month, expectations that the U.S. cotton crop would be large drove prices to their lowest point in four years.

24.   Much of the cotton crop has been burned up, and livestock has been liquidated.

25.   Northerners began going south, some to cash in on the cotton crop, some to help the former slaves.

26.   Polyester prices are expected to come under pressure in the next two years because of good cotton crops.

27.   Politicians and bankers change, the Japanese change, there can be a drought in India, or the Pakistan cotton crop can fail.

28.   Small caterpillars, known as armyworms, devoured much of the Concho Valley cotton crop around San Angelo and in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

29.   That will be the third-largest cotton crop on record, the bureau said.

30.   The cotton crop also is seen increasing this year.