Cotton Pickin' Minute
Channel: TSM
Date: 09/03/2014

If you wait one cotton-picking minute, I'll spin you a story of a crop that accounts for a third of this region's agriculture. The shirt off your back may just have been spun from Western Downs' fields...  after all, half of the country's cotton is produced in the sunshine state. That means Queensland cotton clothes around 250 million people in the world, every year. The average Aussie cotton farm has around 660 acres of the soft stuff... though there is a bit to do until it's nice and fluffy.