Cotton Farming

I am not against farming subsidies in general since we would need to grow our own food if there is another major global war, but why subsidize the cotton barrons? This seems like a huge waste of tax payer money just to enrich the politically influential cotton barons. It is cheaper to import atleast some of our cotton.

The problem is that very large benefits go to a few groups who therefore have an incentive to work very hard to keep the subsidies. The costs are widely distributed - they affect millions of consumers, but the costs are pretty small for each consumer, so they have little incentive to lobby against the subsidies.

2008-07-30 02:17:16 by Praveen Pradeep

Cotton Farming, Planting to Picking

Could anyone please give me some information or point me to a direct source that will tell me what kind of raw materials are using in the cotton farming industry within Australia and whether these are renewable/non-renewable?

Thank you!
Yes, sorry. I meant the raw materials used in growing the crop.

Are you talking materials used to grow the crop or the materials in cotton?

Because if its cotton its just that. You pick the cotton off the plant and its turned into clothes, material, etc.

2008-09-15 21:52:46 by peaceloveunity

i.e. If you mention the word cotton in America you will get shot. The Americans understadably so, removed all of the cotton farmers because they could see what it was doing to their environment. The cotton farms in Australia are utilising far too much water! We already have in almost every state severe water restrictions and this government has allowed more cotton farms to be established. My concern is that when we run out of water to drink and to grow produce for us to eat, we can't eat cotton. And all the money that I understand is coming into the country through allowing cotton farmers to farm will not be much use to us. If we want a dust bowl for our children to inherit I believe we are doing everything in our power to make it happen. I have seen the benifits of you fiscal policy, I think you have improved australias economy and our social environment especially in the workplace. However I do believe we should re think our position on the cotton industry. In my opinion

I don't know where you get your information, but I live in the southern US and I guarantee you that we have not stopped growing cotton.

2007-08-09 16:33:36 by Exasperated

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Atticus became a lawyer and his brother Jack a doctor instead of working their family's cotton farm, known as Finch's Landing.

2009-10-12 17:58:13 by Eric B

Cotton FARMING historically set the stage as the poster child for what is wrong with large-scale commercial farming, growing the same crops over and over in the same soil, and using vasts amounts of chemicals to boot.

Land treated that way (regardless of the particular crop in question), will deplete the soil of nutrients and beneficial microbial and bacterial life.

2008-02-05 14:31:31 by hina a