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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The cotton balls drop off when sprayed with Roundup and farmers in seven states in the US have sought compensation for losses.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Australian farmers begin marketing their cotton crops as far out as two years in advance of planting to take advantage of currency and futures opportunities.
Cotton farmers throughout Hubei now use fewer pesticides, yet produce bigger crops.
Planters Cotton Oil Mill sells bulk cottonseed hulls to customers all across the United States as well as our local farmers.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Financing cotton farmers has been and remains the bank's primary business, although loans to commercial customers is a growing part of our business.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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California farmers can buy highly subsidized cheap water to grow cotton in deserts.
US cotton farmers have saved a similar amount and avoided spraying 2 million pounds of insecticides by switching to biotech varieties.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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When smallholder farmers in China and South Africa grew native cotton varieties that contain the B.
Benin farmers are not permitted to grow more cotton until last season's accounts have been settled.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Although farmers are starting to raise cotton plants that are genetically modified to make a natural insecticide inside the boll, some still lose part of their crop to the insect.
Cotton farmers use approximately 23% of the world's insecticides and 10% of the world's pesticides in growing their crops.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Many farmers in the US and Australia now grow transgenic cotton varieties that carry inbuilt protection against major pests like Helicoverpa caterpillars.
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