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From crop dusting to global megacarrier: Marking 100 years of Delta Air Lines
From aerial crop dusting pioneer to global megacarrier – marking 100 years of operations of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.
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Cotton: Tax that works for the nation's fifth leading producer
(The Center Square) – Paying into a fund monitoring an eradicated insect that nearly wiped out ... division told The Center Square. The boll weevil nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton ...
'C' is for Cotton: 'Still pretty mighty' AZ growers turn focus to seeds, organic crops
Even as climate and committed farmers help AZ rank high for cotton, organic markets, seed production and tech innovation could be the crop's future.
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'C' is for Cotton: 'Still pretty mighty' AZ growers turn focus to seeds, organic crops
The first was named boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis ... That did not outsmart the bug’s evolutionary capacity, but polluted soils and water, and infected people and wildlife.
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How special fee helped North Carolina eradicate a threat to its signature cotton crops
Paying into a fund monitoring an eradicated insect that nearly wiped out North Carolina's cotton ... department’s plant industry division told The Center Square. The boll weevil nearly wiped out North ...
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Georgia cotton farmers say good riddance to boll weevils
p><p>Boll weevils first entered the United States from Mexico near Brownsville, Texas, in 1892 and marched relentlessly northeast, covering the Mississippi Delta and other cotton regions. The insects ...
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'C' is for Cotton: 'Still pretty mighty' AZ growers turn focus to seeds, organic crops
Urban growth has paved over many cotton fields, pushing them out of Maricopa County to other parts of Arizona. In Arizona, cotton yields are five times higher than a century ago as farmers learn to ...