Cotton production dropped about 53 percent in the five-state Mid-South region from 2005 through 2008 as farms converted to corn and soybeans. Job losses followed.

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Economists estimate for every three jobs needed to produce cotton, only one is needed to grow corn or soybeans. It's difficult to say how many jobs have been lost, but the shift is real, and rural ...