Hard working, tobacco spitting, God-fearing Alabama farmers on mechanized farm equipment.
Welcome to the New South, where we pick our OWN cotton.
They sent them to Egypt to raise Egyptian cotton?
Who knew?
Out here it's west Texans on the southern end of the Ogallaha aquifer. Interesting that the TX-NM state line is defined from the air by green farms in Texas and brown landscape in New Mexico. Five miles east of me there are cotton farms with large modern gins where here it's mesquite. The reason is state law - in New Mexico groundwater is owned and apportioned for use by the state whereas in Texas he who owns the land owns the water. Texas will pump for crops like cotton until it runs out in 20 or 30 years or less, while New Mexico, which has a much more meager supply to start with limits use. And we fight in the federal courts with Texas about surface water use and depletion from the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers both of which flow into Texas from New Mexico.