Originally Posted by Zephyr
Originally Posted by CarrieAnne
Like Dorthy said, Everything else has gone up, so it wouldnt surprise me! I wonder if the cotton crop was bad last year or something?
In Alabama we had too much rain and it was very difficult for farmers to get in the field and harvest their crop.
This brings to mind the fact that, even when prices rise for commodities, it is not the farmer that benefits. So the extra we pay does not translate into higher return for the producer of the raw materials. It seems the middlemen get more.