This time of the year is the time when gardeners are consider the seed purchases they will make for their backyard. Taking that to a scale where you may have hundreds, even thousands of acres to plant and your family’s income is dependent on it and you can imagine it is both exciting and stressful for farmers. Looking at various… Read More
I still remember watching the movie The Martian and thinking about how many different things had to come together for Matt Damon’s character to produce food. Not sure whether I joked about his growing his own jeans back then, but it didn’t surprise me to hear someone is looking to grow cotton on the moon. I just wish I knew… Read More
As you watch the news, you have probably been hearing about the various impacts of the government shutdown. National parks that are overrun with trash and TSAs callng in sick due to the shutdown. I hadn’t heard much about the impact on cotton farmers or the industry til this week. Like other areas of US business and culture, the impacts… Read More
I grew up in an area where gardens and yards were pretty common but farms, that took a bit of a drive to get to. And while I am sure agriculture was mentioned in my school, it would have been passing mentions in history, science, etc. We certainly didn’t have a “dirt to shirt” program about cotton in high school… Read More
Egyptian cotton. The two words come together pretty frequently when I’m talking to people who like finer cotton products. There seems to be an ethereal sense when they words are spoken as people think about smoothness and fineness. Having had some Egyptian cotton products, I understand how people’s imaginations are so captivated by the feel of the fabric. The Marketing… Read More
In June, I helped organize a meeting for the office and that’s when I got the chance to meet Darren Brown, a cotton farmer in the Missouri Bootheel (that small part of Missouri near the Mississippi River, Arkansas and Tennessee). Love that he was willing to stick with me through cotton harvest! Since I hit the highway to and from… Read More