On a global basis, Vidalia’s hybrid Pima cotton accounts for about 20% of the total Pima cotton grown in the U.S. Vidalia has been growing the variety since the early 2000s.

EDEN, N.C. — The history of the Spray Cotton Mills dates back more than 100 years before Eden was even a city. It was one of many mills that fed the boom of the Triad textile industry.

American mills are on track to process the least cotton this year since ’85. The year 1885, that is. The same year the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City’s harbor. According to an ...