We had a small farm in NM when I was little and we grew some cotton, also peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn, maize, alfalfa, sugar cane, broom corn, and soybeans. The cotton field is much prettier when it's in bloom, before the bolls form. I still remember my father taking me through a cotton gin. I picked a little cotton just for fun, but I was too young to pull the big long bag down the row. I also remember getting sick after eating the raw peanuts in the field.