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Encyclopedia > Cotton Incorporated

Cotton Incorporated aims "To increase the demand for and profitability of Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant . The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once traces of... cotton through research and promotion." The organization is funded by cotton growers in the This article is on the country in North America. For other uses, see United States may refer to: The United States of America, a country in North America. The SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. The USS United States, a never-built aircraft carrier. The United Mexican... United States through per bale assessments on producers and importers levied by the Cotton Board, which reports to the Dept. of Agriculture Established: February 9, 1889 Activated: February 15, 1889 Secretary: Mike Johanns Deputy Secretary: Jim Moseley Budget: $77.6 billion (2004) Employees: 109,832 (2004) The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government... United States Department of Agriculture.


The Cotton Research and Promotion Act of 1966 enabled the establishment of Cotton Incorporated in 1970 was a This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D). (A common year is a year with 365 days -- in other words, not a leap year.) January February March Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa... 1970.


The company has helped cotton increse market share in Fabric can refer to: Cloth Fabric, a London dance club This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to... fabrics since it was enacted, both through the This article is about brands in marketing. For other uses, see Brand (disambiguation) McDonalds, represented by the Golden Arches, is one of the worlds most famous brands A brand represents the holistic sum of all information about a product or group of products. This symbolic construct typically consists... branding of cotton with the "Seal of Cotton", and improved technology.


External links

  • Cotton Incorporated (http://www.cottoninc.com/)
  • Cotton Incorporated company history (http://www.cottoninc.com/AboutCotton/CompanyHistory/?S=AboutCotton&Sort=0)

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Cotton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2216 words)
Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World.
In 2002, cotton was grown on 330,000 km² of farmland.
Cotton strippers are generally used in regions where it is too windy to grow picker varieties of cotton and generally used after application of a defoliant or natural defoliation occurring after a freeze.
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