U.S. cotton farmers projected to harvest fewest acres since Reconstruction due to drought - Talk Business & Politics
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If the newest harvest projections hold, U.S. farmers will harvest the least number of cotton acres in over 150 years. A crippling drought across many parts of the South and
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