This guarantees that farmers get a stable price for their cotton crop.

The disaster wiped out a third of the country's cotton crop.

Five years later they harvested their largest cotton crop and made a profit of $7 million (3 million).

In 1867, she created her first butter sculpture, when, after the failure of the farm's cotton crop, she sought a source of supplemental income.

They held a lien on the cotton crop and the merchants and landowners were the first ones paid from its sale.