Originally Posted by mynana12
My Dad was a cotton farmer, for forty yrs. My husband ,for twenty yrs, until the price of cotton dropped. He could no longer pay the high fuel prices to produce the crop. He was forced to find another source of income. No one seems understands the cost to produce a crop, plus weather(drought), insects. In Texas,its to dry to even plant the seed.So, that will make our fabric even more costly, for several yrs.
I so understand that! I am a mid-west farmers daughter and fuel prices are way expensive. We tell people "never cuss a farmer with your mouth full" and now we can all say don't forget about the cotton farmer. We may not eat it but we wear it!