Posts Tagged With "pima crop"
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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.
The […] Continue reading
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: ‘Pima Cotton Products Booming’
By Greg Wang
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
SUPIMA IN THE NEWS: The California crop
By Greg Wang
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
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