Forrest Laws

February 22, 2015

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“This is your house. This is the house that you built.”

Those are statements that are repeated several times when cotton producers tour the headquarters of Cotton Incorporated, the research facility built by cotton research and promotion fund dollars in Cary, N.C.

These are tough times in the cotton business. A deep recession in 2008 led to cutbacks in consumer purchases. Then high cotton prices in 2010 and 2011 caused textile mills to look to alternatives to cotton fiber.

But participants in a recent tour were told that Cotton Incorporated is beginning to see renewed interest in cotton fabrics among fashion designers and garment manufacturers at a time when the world’s economy seems to showing some improvement.

Here are some photos from that Feb. 18 tour.

About the Author(s)

Forrest Laws

Forrest Laws spent 10 years with The Memphis Press-Scimitar before joining Delta Farm Press in 1980. He has written extensively on farm production practices, crop marketing, farm legislation, environmental regulations and alternative energy. He resides in Memphis, Tenn. He served as a missile launch officer in the U.S. Air Force before resuming his career in journalism with The Press-Scimitar.

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