Report: Cotton acres hit lowest level since 1983

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:33

U.S. farmers planted their fewest cotton acres since 1983 — just over 9 million — amid a continued swapping of acres for better priced and less-costly-to-produce crops such as corn and soybeans.


 

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