Cotton and conservation
With one bale of cotton, you can make 215 pairs of blue jeans, 2,104 pairs of boxer shorts, 3,085 diapers, 313,600 $100 bills and much, much more.
So says the National Cotton Council, but cotton researchers at Mizzou’s Delta Center have their own numbers: In southeast Missouri, cotton is second only to soybeans as the most valuable crop — with an average value of more than $180 million from 2002 to 2005. Delta Center researchers have developed six new cotton varieties.
Jennifer Faddis of the MU News Bureau has much more information about how cotton isn’t just for football.
With all the attention on the Tigers and the Cotton Bowl, here’s another noteworthy development: Mizzou Tigers for Tigers, a group dedicated to helping endangered tigers, is competing against the Auburn Tigers and the Clemson Tigers to see which school can raise the most money for the conservation cause. Mizzou fans and alumni can help.
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