Cotton

It boggles the mind to think that this all would’ve been picked by hand as recently as the 1950’s.

Arkansas currently ranks #4 in cotton and cottonseed production in the USA, and is the #5 exporter of cotton, with exports valued at nearly half a billion dollars.

Cotton prices fell 25% between January and April 2020 as a result of COVID-19’s negative impact on retail sales of textiles.

For more on cotton’s history in Arkansas: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/cott…En savoir plus