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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" ... until it comes back to bite you. Digressing to the 1970s and 80s, cotton marketing co-op CALCOT and the Kern County Farm Bureau — perceived as players in an emerging free-trade ideology — welcome foreign tour groups into local agriculture. Eager, well-dressed men — mostly Chinese — are armed with cameras and notebooks. In an altruistic wave of "show and tell," big hearts take time to give them all they need to know about the science and technology to grown and gin quality cotton — Kern County's white gold — on a mass scale. Likewise across the nation they glean knowledge through the southern cotton beltway and its textile mills ... all in all, hard-won advancements spanning a century since our nation's Industrial Revolution. Today cotton prices have tanked due to overseas dirt-cheap-labor competition and market flooding. Our surviving cotton gins are few. Many have become...
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