But after Tekele Cotton hit a 3-pointer with 2:20 left, VanVleet scored on a shot that bounced all over the rim before dropping.
After their cotton had been ginned, farmers would keep some of the seed for next year's planting, plow some into the ground as fertilizer, and use the rest to feed their cows.
Moreover, America remains the world's second-largest grower of cotton (after China), and in many cases it still makes sense to weave near the farms, most of which are in such southern states as North Carolina and Mississippi, rather than to ship cotton abroad.
Bt cotton, named after a tiny bug, Bacillus thuringiensis, whose insect-fighting properties have been transferred (to several crops besides cotton) not to sell more herbicide, Roundup or any other, but to require less pesticide.
U.S. cotton futures surged last week after India announced the ban, igniting fears of another jump in prices for cotton goods.
Born Morris Holt to Mississippi farmers in August 1937, Slim gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing a finger in a cotton gin accident when he was 13.
Plank noticed that, after a practice or a game, the cotton T-shirt that he and the other players wore under their pads would be heavy, soaked with sweat.
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Politics, both inside and outside the rugby world, reared its head, beginning with the announcement that Fran Cotton would quit the English RFU after a bitter internal dispute.
Brazil is about to impose tariffs on American goods after the World Trade Organisation ruled America unfairly subsidises cotton.
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Some of this flows from a late 1990s revival, after good rains and the start of a booming cotton irrigation industry.
And finally, a ton of cottonseed will contain about 150 pounds of "linters, "which are tiny bits of cotton fuzz that are stuck to the seed after ginning.
The cost of organic conversion and lower crop yields than regular cotton (at least in the early years after a switch) have quelled farmers' interest.
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Preferring the comfort of her knobby-kneed cotton pants, stretched out from sitting day-after-day at her computer, she accents her dark palette with tiger-print bedroom slippers.
After a while, we reached a group of eight workers in cotton shoes, hard hats, and military-surplus uniforms.
After looking at the first few offices, the pattern is set for how Cotton will rate his choices.
The day after the quotas were announced, China cancelled a trade mission to the United States to buy American cotton, wheat and soyabeans.
After graduating, Dalio went to Harvard Business School, where he traded commodities grains, oil, cotton, and so on for his own account.
Even today, over a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan is still the world's second-biggest exporter of thirsty cotton.
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