And it's convenient, too, as the catfish farms in the South are close to the cotton fields.
As a young girl, she and her brother would help their parents in the cotton fields.
They will need water for their mills, their power plants and their nearby cotton fields.
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My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields.
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Even the cotton fields in Xinjiang a last-resort destination of millions of poor farmers are no longer a viable option.
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Starting in the 1960s, the Soviet bureaucracy irrigated cotton fields in Uzbekistan by diverting Himalayan rivers that used to feed the Aral Sea.
Through his open windows, Christenberry could smell the red Alabama clay and survey the cotton fields occasionally dotted with weather-beaten buildings.
Once a little molasses is stirred in, much of this trash becomes cattle feed, trucked just a short distance to the feedlots dotted among the cotton fields.
So Mama Fleur didn't feed me meat or milk so that I'd stay small and not have to go to work in the cotton fields.
Above that perched a glassed-in belvedere, unbearably hot, where he could look out over long flat plots of woods that had once been cotton fields.
In Midland City, a town of about 2, 400 nestled among peanut and cotton fields, residents were relieved that the boy was safely rescued from Dykes.
Asked by Newsweek about his unlikely rise from the cotton fields of the Deep South to the pinnacle of Wall Street, O'Neal replied with almost teenage glee.
As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.
Nadeem Babar is addressing Pakistan's severe power shortage right where it's needed the most: in the wheat and cotton fields and the textile factories spread across the vital Punjab province.
In private, some Kazakhstan officials say that, although much could be done to save the southern section, the Uzbeks seem determined to continue diverting vast quantities of water to their cotton fields.
For example, researchers in Arizona are using real-time kinematic global positioning systems, an ultra-precise version of GPS that can measure positions with sub-inch accuracy levels, to control weeds in cotton fields with steel cultivators.
On a road trip that my husband Brian and I took down highway 61 in Mississippi I spotted many Lane cakes in diners hidden in the cotton fields and even in small town airport groceries.
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Because American Giant's supply chain can be traced all the way back to the US cotton fields, with fabric being specially woven and dyed for it, getting a new shipment of raw materials wasn't as simple as making a phone call and waiting for an overnight delivery.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.
Buff or saline-white desert dragged out between fields of sugarcane and cotton, mango orchards and clover and wheat, soaked daily by the tube wells that Nawabdin Electrician tended.
"I walked the fields of central California and learned how devastating cotton is, " Smith says.
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