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01-28-2011 HOARDING COTTON IN CHINA { 33 images } Created 30 Jan 2011

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  • Cotton farmer Yu Feng walks around his kitchen in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A boy runs through the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Stalks from harvested cotton sit piled up in in a field in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Stalks form harvested cotton sit in a field in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Feng holds a pied or his stockpile of roughly 3500 kilograms of cotton that he is storing in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON..NOTE: A NUMBER OF THE SUBJECTS FAMILY NAME IS YU BECAUSE THE IT IS TAKEN FROM THE VILLAGE NAME OF  THE VILLAGE WHICH I S YUQIAO NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE RELATED.
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Ji watches television in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers liek Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON..NOTE: A NUMBER OF THE SUBJECTS FAMILY NAME IS YU BECAUSE THE IT IS TAKEN FROM THE VILLAGE NAME OF  THE VILLAGE WHICH I S YUQIAO NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE RELATED.
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  • Cotton sits in storage at the home of farmer Yan Changyu in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton sits in storage at the home of farmer Yu Lianmin in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Yu Bing Zeng looks over cotton that he has stored in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Feng sits with his stockpile of roughly 3500 kilograms of cotton that he is storing in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yan Changyu walks through a stockpile of roughly 3500 kilograms of cotton that she is storing in her home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mrs. Yan are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Feng sits with his stockpile of roughly 3500 kilograms of cotton that he is storing in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Bingyong(L) walks through a stockpile of roughly 3000 kilograms of cotton that he is storing in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers like Mr. Yu are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal..NOTE: A NUMBER OF THE SUBJECTS FAMILY NAME IS YU BECAUSE THE IT IS TAKEN FROM THE VILLAGE NAME OF  THE VILLAGE WHICH I S YUQIAO NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE RELATED..Slug: COTTON
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  • An elderly man is driven on the back of a bicycle in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • An elderly man sits  in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A woman carrying a child makes her way through the the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Stalks form harvested cotton sit in a field in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A cotton farmer looks out of her window in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton sits in storage at the home of farmer Yu Feng in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmer Yu Bing Zeng(L) has lunch with his wife in his home in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A cotton farmer looks out of her window in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • Cotton farmern Zhang Sholian cooks with a wood steamer in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A herder drives his sheep through a cotton field in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A boy walks past a cottong field in the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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  • A man and a dog make their way through the town of Huji in the province of Shandong, China, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Despite record cotton prices last year, some farmers are storing their harvest of cotton and are holding out for even higher prices, hoping to help overcome higher costs of fertilizer and labor, which have both risen 20% in the past year..CREDIT:Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: COTTON
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