Resources Magazine

Spring 2003

	QUALITY COTTON SOFTENS MARKET VOLATILITY by Kevin Robinson-Avila Premium quality keeps New Mexico's cotton farmers competitive.
	GINNING RIGHT ALONG by D'Lyn Ford Researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory look for ways to make cleaning cotton a kinder, gentler operation.
	THE 100 YEARS WAR by Norman Martin From boll weevils to microscopic nematodes, New Mexico cotton growers and scientists do battle with wave after wave of pests.
	QUITE WHITE by Norman Martin For more than a century, agricultural research at NMSU has helped New Mexico farmers deal with the ups and downs of producing cotton.
	COTTON: THE FABRIC, FIBER, FLAVOR OF OUR LIVES by Anna María Pérez-Wright Every day across the nation, Americans wear jeans, light candles, write letters and eat chips-all activities that involve cotton and its by-products.