1.   Bob Martin looks across the vast landscape where he and his father used to raise cotton.

2.   He quit school in the eighth grade, he raised cotton, he broke horses, he even went to barber school and cut hair for a living.

3.   One of the reasons the company quit raising cotton was environmental concerns, such as the use of chemicals, Wood said.

4.   From raising cotton, peanuts, corn and soybeans, he learned to cope with the vagaries of the weather and the markets.