King Cotton Faces 'Bleak' Future in Louisiana After Centuries as Backbone Crop

By Greg Hilburn

The News Star

Cotton, once king in Louisiana, has become little more than an afterthought for farmers whose fertile fields once looked like snow covered ground with fluffy white bolls during the late summer as harvest approached.

But this summer Louisiana producers will plant the fewest acres of cotton in the history of the state as the crop's decline accelerates.

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