cotton farms
Boll-growing operations
Cotton farms are agricultural operations that cultivate cotton plants for their fiber, used in textiles.
The term typically evokes the American South, where cotton farming shaped regional history and economy—including its dependence on enslaved labor before the Civil War and sharecropping afterward.
Her family had worked cotton farms for generations.
- bollPlant seed pod
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- irrigation systemsFarm water distribution infrastructure
- soil preparationReadying earth for planting
- pest managementControlling harmful organisms
slavery history · rainfall patterns · soil quality · gin · bale · drought resistance · colonial agriculture · textile industry · sharecropping · lint · Eli Whitney · antebellum · field · Mississippi Delta · global trade · soil · picking · harvest time
- Southern Agriculturesoybeans, poultry, broilers, beef cattle, catfish
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, factory farming, factory farm, agro-industry
- monoculturescorn fields, wheat fields, rice paddies, palm oil, banana plantations
- farm typesranch, ranches, plantation, plantations, vineyard
- Beheira GovernorateRashid, Rosetta
- Western OklahomaWoodward, Beaver, Hobart, Fairview, Laverne
cotton farmswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
nature preserves · virgin forest · wetlands · fallow land · desert