Originally Posted by Onebyone

I live in cotton growing country. We have a cotton gin mill in town. I called one of the cotton growers field managers and he told me an earful about organic cotton growing. For the small fields it's fdoable but for the big cotton fields, the owner cannot take the loss of the cotton crop by going organic. It takes years for the organic way to show benefits and never will produce the amount of cotton needed to keep the fields profitable. The organic chemicals are more harmful in other ways then the crop dusting done now. He ended with don't you think if organic cotton growing was the same or more profitable the growers would all be growing organic? Bottom line is profit and demand for abundant cotton. Not much demand for organic cotton to mass produce cotton goods.