I keep seeing "the price of cotton is going up".
At the end of October, when I was driving through N. Carolina with a friend, I wondered why there was cotton still in the fields, being rained on. My friend explained that the Govt. pays some growers to let it rot in the fields so as to control the price of cotton. Has anyone else (in NC) heard about this, or understand why they wouldn't pick the so needed cotton they grow?