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I am not certain but I would bet that Texas is the largest cotton grower in the nation.
yep!
/johnny
Heck yes. I live in an old cotton capitol
I’m pretty sure that your question is Civil War related, and the answer is yes, Texas was a cotton state.
Even today, cotton is only second to beef in ag dollars.
From a tamu website:
“Texas leads the U.S. in cotton production and it is our leading cash crop, ranking only behind the beef and nursery industries in total cash receipts. In 2000, growers produced over 4 million bales, representing over $1 billion to the Texas cotton industry. Texas annually produces about 25% of the entire U.S. crop and plants over 6 million acres! That’s over 9,000 square miles of cotton fields.”
Cotton was and still is big business in Texas. Just do a google search on Texas Cotton, and you get 18,400,000 pages.
My family raised cotton, and it’s still a cash crop in central Texas. When my mom and dad moved into town, my mom became a beautician. My dad was always talking about moving back to the country. My mom told him, “I’ve picked every cotton boll I ever want to pick!” She also told him she had no intention of sitting on the back porch and watching the dogs f***, cause that’s all there is to do in the country, but that doesn’t have anything to do with your original post.
Thanks al for the replies...Somehow I got it in my head that cotton, pre-Civil War, was mostly a South Eastern and South Central U.S. crop.
My father wrecked the old cotton warehouses in Galveston, that is where he salvaged what I think were Galveston’s oldest fire hydrants dated from 1860.
Texas leads the U.S. in cotton production and it is our leading cash crop, ranking only behind the beef and nursery industries in total cash receipts. In 2000, growers produced over 4 million bales, representing over $1 billion to the Texas cotton industry. Texas annually produces about 25% of the entire U.S. crop and plants over 6 million acres! That’s over 9,000 square miles of cotton fields.
My daddy was a cotton picker when he was a kid, the whole family did it. Yes, they were poor.
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The whole panhandle of Texas is cotton and oil, and more recently, vineyards!
First hit on google. “texas cotton production”
http://cotton.tamu.edu/cottoncountry.htm
“Texas leads the U.S. in cotton production and it is our leading cash crop, ranking only behind the beef and nursery industries in total cash receipts. In 2000, growers produced over 4 million bales, representing over $1 billion to the Texas cotton industry. Texas annually produces about 25% of the entire U.S. crop and plants over 6 million acres! That’s over 9,000 square miles of cotton fields.”
was and still is.
Still is.