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2. Cottonseed - Wikipedia

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   These are 20% protein, 20% oil and 3.5% starch. Fibers grow from the seed coat to form a boll of cotton lint. The boll is a protective fruit and when the plant is grown commercially, it is stripped from the seed by ginning and the lint is then processed into cotton fibre. For unit weight of fibre, about 1.6 units of seeds are produced.

3. Cottonseed oil - Wikipedia

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   Cottonseed oil is cooking oil from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum, that are grown for cotton fiber, animal feed, and oil. [ 1 ] Cotton seed has a similar structure to other oilseeds , such as sunflower seed , having an oil-bearing kernel surrounded by a hard outer hull; in ...

4. Pioneer Hi Bred International - Wikipedia

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   1973 - Pioneer obtains a soybean product line through the purchase of Peterson Seed Company. 1975 - Purchases Lankhartt and Lockett companies (cotton seed business). 1977 - Pioneer acquires Microbial Products division to develop bacterial strains for inoculation into silage. 1978 - Hy-Line International is spun off.

5. Petit Gulf cotton - Wikipedia

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   According to one local historian, there are two legends about how Nutt acquired the seed: "The first is that he got the seed in Egypt while on a world cruise. The other is that he found it in Mexico and offered to buy some. Told that the country did not allow the export of cotton seed, he was offered an alternative by the resourceful Mexican.

6. Roundup Ready - Wikipedia

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   Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn (maize), canola, [2] sugar beets, [3] cotton, and alfalfa, [4] with wheat [5] still under development. Additional information on Roundup Ready crops is available on the GM Crops List. [6] As of 2005, 87% of U.S. soybean fields were planted with glyphosate resistant varieties. [7] [8]

7. Southern States Cooperative - Wikipedia

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   Southern States Cooperative was founded in 1923 as the Virginia Seed Service by 150 farmers in Richmond, Virginia to help develop seeds. It expanded to distribution of feed in 1925, fertilizer in 1926 and farm supplies and petroleum shortly after. At the time, farmers in Virginia were unable to buy seed guaranteed to grow in the Commonwealth ...