cotton farming
Growing textile crops
Cotton farming is the cultivation of cotton plants for their fiber, used in textile production.
The crop requires warm temperatures, abundant water during growth, and dry conditions for harvest.
Cotton farming has shaped economies and landscapes, particularly in the American South, where it was historically tied to slave labor and later sharecropping.
Her family had been in cotton farming for generations.
- rainfall patternsDistribution of precipitation over time
- water rightsLegal allocation of H2O
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- commodity pricesCost of traded raw goods
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
irrigation · boll weevil · plantation economy · West Texas · Eli Whitney · floodplain · drought resistance · antebellum · slave labor · monoculture · cash crop · soil types · gin · textile mill · soil fertility · export markets · rows · picker
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- ArkansasLittle Rock Nine, Arkansas River, Ozarks, Ozark Mountains, Fort Smith
- farm guidessustainable agriculture, permaculture, gardening books, seed catalogs, cover crops
- Reconstruction Southsharecropping, freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, carpetbaggers, scalawags
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
- Texas PanhandleAmarillo, High Plains, flat terrain, cattle ranching, Canadian
cotton farmingsubsistence farming
Growing food for household
wheat farming · rice cultivation · permaculture · dry farming · ranching