GREENWOOD, Miss. — Cotton is no longer king of the Mississippi Delta.
New grain storage bins for soybeans and corn. Since 2003, cotton prices have declined nearly 23 percent, but prices for soybeans are up more than 38 percent and corn nearly 65 percent.
Farmers working land that has bloomed a dazzling snowy white every September since before the Civil War are switching to corn and soybeans. As gleaming silver corn silos go up on farm after farm, cotton gins are laying off workers or shutting down.
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