[FAA]

I was all over Mississippi, Alabama, and, Georgia for years and don’t recall seeing any cotton being grown more than a couple or three times. Could be I just wasn’t in the right places but I didn’t see near as much as I expected to see. There use to be a LOT of cotton grown in West Texas but these days so much of that farm land is dormant as well.

[Nifster]

You want to see cotton fields??? Head to Fresno

[Donnafrflorida]

I traveled from fla to ft benning ga recently. as soon as i headed west from 75 towards columbus there was cotton for miles.

[Albion Wilde]

I was all over Mississippi, Alabama, and, Georgia for years and don’t recall seeing any cotton being grown more than a couple or three times.

Most of our former textile business has moved to China, India, and some South American countries -- it's tragic when you love fabric and sewing, to see the quality of the crap sold as cotton broadcloth today. Especially the terrible calico prints that are so not American.

I drove past some fields of cotton in coastal North Carolina recently. Why they had not been harvested in late fall, I do not know. Cotton fibers had blown onto the median strip of the highway, too, caught in the dried grass. Locals call it "Carolina snow."

[Rebelbase]

For comparison:

[Rodamala]

I was out in west Texas and Eastern NM last year... it was really something to see all the abandoned cotton compresses... I envisioned boxcars of cotton once going out by rail... it’s all gone.

Similarly were the carbon black plants where they would burn natural gas off to make soot which was used in everything from paint to Bakelite... once upon a time.

[wardaddy]

Mississippi delta still has lots of cotton.

Cotton and soybeans

I think Texas and California and Arizona lead US cotton production now

Mississippi is fourth but given the soil and variety has best yields