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Where is organic cotton grown in the United States?
U.S. organic cotton is produced primarily in seven states: Texas, followed by Arizona, California, New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee, annually producing a total of approximately 7,500 bales of cotton. (Internationally, Turkey and the United States are the leading producers of organic cotton, followed by India, Peru, Uganda, Egypt, Senegal and Tanzania.)
Unfortunately, agricultural lands are vanishing rapidly due to relentless and unregulated real estate speculation, and land grabs in the Southwestern U.S. especially. While real estate developers get richer, Americans become more vulnerable to reliance on foreign sources of fibers and other life sustaining crops formerly grown in the States. Why is so much organic cotton imported? Many organic farms in the U.S., especially in Texas, used to be maintained by generations of the same family, providing a direct link to the natural, common sense farming methods that supported early Americans, and once thriving rural communities. Organic farmers are demonstrating we can have wonderful and functional cottons in our lives while minimizing harm to people, animals, and the environment we must live in. They do this by operating in a humane and environmentally sensitive manner, in stark contrast to massive factory farms and corporate agribusiness that dominate the global marketplace. By farming with a combination of savvy and hard manual labor, organic cotton growers are helping to preserve and sustain our air, water, soil, and the natural biodiversity of the planet. You can help organic farming grow and prosper in the United States:
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