US cotton production hits its lowest in 25 years
01-Jul-2009
The U.S. farmers planted about 9 million cotton acres this year, their fewest since 1983, with growers in
Mississippi and Louisiana planting their smallest acreages on record. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a report released Tuesday, also noted a 46-percent decline in upland cotton acreage in California, where there have been concerns with irrigation water.