the president of American Pima Seed and of O&A Enterprises, a private breeding company. It takes about 12 years to develop new varieties, he said. Olvey and his son and business partner, Mike, grow ...

She also plants a small plot of cotton and keeps the ... Ed Curry, a chile grower from Pearce, grows about 100 acres of organic Pima cotton using drip irrigation. He said he doesn’t use any ...