The Battle For Planting Area Opened &Nbsp; Cotton Became A Hot Crop In The United States.

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Planting Area Competition For The United States

Southern United States

Farm

The main crop will be planted on the land previously planted with corn, soybean and wheat.

cotton

Clothing market

Increased demand and reduced production and compressed supply have led to a surge in cotton prices.

This led to the two demands of "eating" and "wearing" and began to fight for limited land acreage.

"Growing cotton now can make a lot of money," said Vera, RamonVela of Pan Handel, Texas, who planted wheat fields in 2010.

Probably in the first week of May 2011, Vera, 37, will start planting 1100 acres (445 hectares) of cotton, compared with 210 acres in 2010.

"Making money is a big deal," he said. "This is the driving force."

Economists, agricultural experts and government officials predict that more growers will join Vera in the United States and elsewhere and gain more profits by planting cotton, a trend that will spread all over the world in 2011.

Wallace, an agricultural expert, said: "this is a good thing for farmers, but from the humanitarian level, this is scary." (WebbWallace)

Those who are still struggling to get food from poor countries will now become more and more hardship.

Many factors determine grain prices.

The demand for ethanol pushed up the price of corn, while the dry climate led to a ban on food exports in Russia, prompting wheat prices to rise in 2010.