While the abandonment rate remained the same, USDA cut yield per harvested acre across nine states in their September WASDE ...

California cotton plantings once covered more than 1 million acres annually, producing a crop worth more than $1 billion a ...

A good weed control program will improve crop quality and reduce plugging of harvest equipment. For safety and efficiency, service machinery before beginning the day's work, and as needed during the ...

Galy says growing cotton in a lab helps avoid a number of environmental issues associated with water use, pesticides and ...

Cotton is one of the most valuable crops grown in the U.S., with a harvest value of some US$7 billion yearly. It is cultivated across a crescent of 17 states stretching from Virginia to California and ...

But cotton isn't the only thing being harvested around the Hub City. Here is a look at what is growing around West Texas this time of year and what is about to be planted. After two consecutive ...

SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, Texas — A study by AgriLife shows Texas farmers are experiencing a better cotton harvest this year compared to the last two years but local farmers are telling us that ...

YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — It’s harvest season for cotton farmers in Arizona. Cotton is a key ingredient in many everyday items, including clothing, baby products, and coffee filters. The seed separated ...

According to the company, conventional self-propelled cotton harvesters leave 5-20% of the product on plants, and the only way to harvest it is by hand — a grueling and expensive task.

Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest is getting under way, and once again rights activists are reporting cases of forced labour. Staff at state-owned companies are being driven out to the ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

Ginning, blowing, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting, sewing, ironing, shipping and trucking — all the steps it took to turn some cotton ...