Farmers in the South do not specialize in cotton alone. They may also grow sugar cane, fruit in orchards and raise livestock.
the regain doesn't have a long enough growing season.
Farmers in the South often specialize in crops that thrive in warmer climates, such as cotton, tobacco, soybeans, and citrus fruits. Livestock farming, particularly for cattle and poultry, is also common in the Southern United States.
Farmers in the South don't really specialize in just one thing. Many of them grow various things like cotton, fruit in orchards, sugar cane, as well as raise livestock like sheep, cattle, goats, horses, pigs and chickens.
Success of a new variety of cotton enhanced growing cotton in the South.
The main crop of poor subsistence farmers in the South was cotton. Cotton was a vital cash crop for these farmers, as it could be sold for profit and was in high demand for textiles.
the cotton gin, made by Whitney
In the south they were known for growing tobacco and cotton.
farmers used them to move cotton.
farmers used them to move cotton.
farmers used them to move cotton.
The south had produced bumper crops of cotton for the three years before the Civil War began. Warehouses in France and England were bulging with raw cotton, so there was no immediate shortage to idle mills and workers. Cotton continued to be exported by blockade runners during the war on a much smaller scale. The south would have been far better off had farmers stopped planting cotton and started growing food.
Both, actually. In 2009 South Carolina farmers grew 115,000 acres of cotton and 165,000 acres of wheat.