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And often, for Texas cotton farmers, the garbage is the difference between red and black at the end of the year.
NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'
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The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.
NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'
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It does, however, turn a cost trash disposal into a revenue, however small, for Texas cotton farmers, and it is typical of the hundreds of small ways that the farmers have figured out to waste nothing and use everything.
NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'
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Plenty of countries in Asia and Africa have natural conditions that are better for growing cotton than those in Texas, where much of the world's cotton comes from.
NPR: After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton
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Actress Holland Taylor has found that in Ann Richards, the former Texas governor with the cotton candy hair and down-home humor.
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There are university and government cotton research centers all over Texas and the South, all of which help U.S. cotton farmers compete in the global market.
NPR: After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton
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Half of that U.S. cotton grows in Texas, whose producers are starting to buy more fertilizer and pesticides expenses they had been cutting before.
WSJ: Farm Economy Bounces Back
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The site of the first national championship game in the new system will also be determined at these meetings and the finalists are Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
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Recently, Texas businesses signed six agreements worth half a billion dollars in exports to China, including cotton, crystalline silicon solar cells and photovoltaic generation systems.
FORBES: Times Have Changed: No More 'China Produces and America Consumes'
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Robertson's black-lump adventure began in 1969 after he graduated from the University of Texas, where the tall linebacker was an All-American football player and captain of the Cotton Bowl-winning 1968 team.
FORBES: Fuel's paradise
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Texas is not about to become a big national banking centre, but these are further signs that an economy of cotton, cows and drills has become a lot more diverse.
ECONOMIST: Beyond oil