Jackson County, Florida Sonny Davis along with his four younger brothers grew up farming. In fact, Sonny now farms the land that once belonged to his grandfather, which he acquired in 1971. “When I was a kid, we grew cotton here until the boll weevil practically wiped cotton off of..
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Burlison, Tennessee (Tipton Country) Brad Williams, age 42, grew up on a cotton farm and as a child had always said he would never farm. However, during his senior year in college, he learned the art of identifying and differentiating all of cotton fiber’s quality intricacies, also known as classing..
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Itta Bena, MS Meet Staplcotn farmer, Mark Kimmel. Mark farms with his father-in-law in Itta Bena, Mississippi, a small community surrounded by farm land nestled deep in the Mississippi Delta. This area provides its farmers with rich soils that formed from the deposits of silt, clay and gravel due to..
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Founded in 1921, Staple Cotton Cooperative Association (Staplcotn) is the oldest and one of the largest cotton marketing cooperatives in the United States. We provide a range of services to our members, including: domestic and export marketing; cotton warehousing; and agricultural financing, which is available through Stapldiscount, the lending arm of Staplcotn.