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"Season average for 2011-2012 we expect to be closer to $1 a pound," said Terry Townsend , executive director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, a Washington-based association that advises the governments of cotton-growing nations.

Cotton Farmers Likely To Plant More Globally, Cooling Prices Leslie Josephs 2011

He points in particular to the floods disrupting thousands of businesses in Thailand and Cambodia, the Texas drought which has already cost more than $5bn in agricultural losses and the disruption to the world's major cotton-growing regions that helped drive prices on the New York Cotton Exchange from 86 to 230 cents per pound in the year to March 2011.

CDP's Water Disclosure Report highlights businesses failing to act 2011

A Washington correspondent complained that Lincoln seemed to be “serenely smiling at the ominous tidings that rush over the wires from the cotton-growing States.”

Harold Holzer: Why was Abraham Lincoln so silent following his election? Harold Holzer 2011

Earlier in 2010, towns in the cotton-growing valley where Práxedis is situated had been ransacked as two powerful drug gangs, the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels, fought for control outside of Ciudad Juárez.

Mexican Cop Flees to U.S. Nicholas Casey 2011

Each year, 100,000 to 200,000 cotton contracts are signed, said Terry Townsend , executive director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, a group that advises cotton-growing nations.

Cotton Contracts, Made to be Broken Leslie Josephs 2011

The International Cotton Advisory Committee, a Washington-based association that advises the governments of cotton-growing nations, has told countries to let the rally run its course in hopes that the high prices will curb demand.

Cotton Closes In on $2 Leslie Josephs 2011

Marketing margins are going to have to be squeezed, somewhat, said Terry Townsend , executive director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, a Washington-based association that advises the governments of cotton-growing nations.

Cotton Hits All-Time High Leslie Josephs 2011

"It's very difficult to imagine clothing prices rising at retail to compensate for this increase in cotton prices," said Terry Townsend , executive director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, a Washington-based association that advises the governments of cotton-growing nations.

Tight Supplies, High Demand Give Legs to Soft-Commodity Rally Leslie Josephs 2011

Mother Nature contributed with the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and a seemingly unstoppable boll weevil infestation that marched steadily through the cotton-growing states, both of which forced countless agricultural workers -- many of whom might have preferred to stay in their hometowns -- off the land.

Megan Smolenyak: Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Migration Megan Smolenyak 2012

After five hours on the ground, it was back on the Boeing 757 jet for a one-hour ride, over glorious snow-covered mountains, to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a wealthy cotton-growing country under the grip of strongman Islam Karimov, who also was the communist party boss before the country became independent.

Clinton's endless day in Central Asia Glenn Kessler 2010