Cotton 101: Facts about Cotton — The Crop & Products This is a post that provides some of the trivia — bits and pieces of things that I think are interesting about cotton. Yeah, I am a total cotton geek! A Million Bales of Cotton Impact From One Small Town When a cotton gin in A...
In the world of fashion, the use of cotton has followed the development of technology and availability. Before the invention of the cotton gin, it took over 600 hours of human labor to produce one bale of cotton (which is about 500 pounds). This, of course, made cotton garments far too...
My friend and one of great patience,John Blueasked me the question “can people eat cottonseed?” some time ago. I’ve meant to write the blog post a number of times. But I kept dragging my feet. I think now maybe it was because there since there isn’t a simple yes or no answer...
No treatment exists to cure gossypol toxicity. Removing cottonseed from the ration may have some reversal effect but is not guaranteed. Some animals have still died even 2 weeks after gossypol was removed from their diet. viaForage Facts: Gossypol Toxicity in Livestock | Pearl Snaps’ Ponderings....
King Cotton, phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production. After the invention of the cotton gin (1793), cotton surpassed tobacco as the