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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

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SUPIMA SPECIAL REPORT: The Pima cotton crop in California

By Greg Wang

By EARL WILLIAMS Executive Vice President California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association

California planted its first commercial Pima cotton crop in 1989, some 18,000 acres under tightly controlled oversight and after two fairly successful years Pima was finally approved for open and uncontrolled planting by the state regulators.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: ‘Pima Cotton Products Booming’

By Greg Wang

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LONDON—The good news is going global.

The upswing of U.S. pima cotton is also proving to be great news for U.K. retailers, like Supima licensee Marks & Spencer.

Earlier this week, the Fibre2Fashion news site published a report […] Continue reading


Friday, March 26, 2010

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SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: The California crop

By Greg Wang

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SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, Calif.—Here in California the extra-long staple (known as ELS) pima cotton that goes into Supima is big news.

So when demand for Supima skyrockets, that becomes big news too.

Here, in an exhaustively thorough study of California’s extra-long […] Continue reading