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Now, however, the bolls and leaves are used as feed but the seed is off to bigger and better things.
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To mix metaphors, redistribution confiscates the seed corn through progressive taxation and redistributes the seed corn from planting to feed.
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Even without new seed varieties or fancy drip-feed irrigation, investment should help farmers.
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Before her operation Becky could not peck at food on the ground so her seed was gathered into little mounds so she could feed.
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Those farmers who planted carefully, kept pests away, weeded and watered, harvested at the right time and kept aside seed for next year were most likely to have enough to feed their families, and maybe even some left over to sell at market.
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The volume of cottonseed garbage during the 1800s became so problematic that a number of states passed laws to regulate its disposal.16 But while the bolls and leaves were still trash, in the early 1900s the seed began to move up the value chain to be used as fertilizer and animal feed.
NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'
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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.
NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'