Talk:Cotton production in the United States

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On GE Cotton
How come there's no mention on how much GE cotton has been grown? The FDA gave both genetic modification and nanotech the "substantial equivalence" card; in other words, they fell for uncertainties. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 14:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Gin boom
The history includes a boom in production from the new cotton gin technology. Added production numbers from http://www.historynet.com/seeds-of-conflict.htm Mydogtrouble (talk) 17:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Georgia
A US Senate hearing said that Georgia is #1 in US cotton production. Mr. Lee of the US Cotton Council appeared to agree on 4/4/2017 with David Scott (Georgia politician)}Senator David Scott (D-GA) of the House Agriculture Committee. MaynardClark (talk) 14:52, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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Price Drop and Northern Migration
" Annual production slumped from 1,365,000 bales in the 1910s to 801,000 in the 1920s.[21] In South Carolina, Williamsburg County production fell from 37,000 bales in 1920 to 2,700 bales in 1922 and one farmer in McCormick County produced 65 bales in 1921 and just 6 in 1922.[21] As a result of the devastating harvest of 1922, some 50,000 black cotton workers left South Carolina, and by the 1930s the state population had declined some 15%, largely due to cotton stagnation.[21] Although the industry was badly affected by falling prices and pests in the early 1920s, the main reason is undoubtedly the mechanization of agriculture in explaining why many blacks moved to northern American cities in the 1940s and 1950s during the "Great Migration" as mechanization of agriculture was introduced, leaving many unemployed.[6] The Hopson Planting Company produced the first crop of cotton to be entirely planted, harvested, and baled by machinery in 1944.[6]" according to the article. In my opinion, the price drop in the 1920's was a result of the obsolescence of gun-cotton as a result of the fixation of nitrogen through the Haber-Frisch Process. From the US Civil War until WWI, the average artillery shell is said to have required the consumption of 17 pounds of cotton. By the 1920's the whole world had caught up with Germany's arms technology. One sees no reference to this historically highly important change in any of the history books -- but then histories of the 1950's never seem to notice that a quarter of America's electricity then went into uranium enrichment, either. It is unclear to me what the mechanization of the 1940s and 50's is doing in the same sentence with the price drop of the 1920's. David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2018 (UTC)


 * A prolonged commodity price drop would be more likely be related to production cost than to the supply and demand relationship. The introduction of tractors (Fordson introduced a tractor in 1917) undoubtedly lowered the cost of production and the introduction of trucks lowered transportation cost.Phmoreno (talk) 01:50, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello
Hi everyone! I will be updating the Missouri section of Cotton Production in the United States over the next few weeks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkpaut (talk • contribs) 23:22, 12 September 2018 (UTC)