L'ooking out over a field of cotton prior to harvest, one can picture those puffy white balls being spun into sturdy blue jeans, billowy blouses and soft pillowcases. Butthere is nothing soft or easy about growing cotton. It is, in a word, "temperamental," according to Lisa Morcom, an agronomist with United Agricultural Cooperative Inc., in El Campo, Texas, about 90 miles west of Houston.
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