1. Its landowners use much of their subsidized water to grow subsidized cotton. 2. He grew cotton and ranched Arizona from Buckeye to Seven Springs, when cotton and cattle made men kings. 3. Her father grew cotton on the rich land of the Trinity River bottom. 4. However, white cotton has been grown almost exclusively in North America since before the Revolutionary War because of its high yield and good fiber quality. 5. Huge swaths of fields were hammered by hail, but cotton is grown on millions of acres there. 6. Renting some land, Hormell said, her grandmother planted the seeds, grew the cotton and made enough money to buy her own land. 7. They grew cotton, weaving it into cloth. 8. U.S. farmers are growing less cotton this year, switching acres to more profitable soybeans, government figures show. 9. Vast stretches of arid land in the southern part of the country were turned into collective farms laced with irrigation to grow cotton. |