Cheap cotton prices and dwindling demand are just part of the problem. Input costs have climbed and there's no safety net to be found from a new farm bill. One Georgia farmer says the current farm ...

In the early 1990s, Bailey & Sons Farms moved from 2-row pickers to 4-row pickers, subsequently transitioning to 6-row pickers, all while increasing overall cotton acreage. In 2011, the last ...

The Cotton Campaign, a coalition of human rights organisations, independent trade unions, brand associations, investors and academics, has called on the Uzbekistan government to strengthen reforms to ...

Rayner witnessed the boom of cotton farming in Arizona at an early age ... when there were no mechanical pickers, and when the crop was enshrined for its economic promise as one of Arizona ...

This came partially as a response to the international pressure regarding the use of mobilized labor in cotton picking. Under Uzbekistan’s state-order system it is compulsory for many farmers to grow ...

and a reported failure on the part of some cotton clusters to pay farmers in a timely manner. In the 2024 harvest season, Uzbek Forum said, its monitors noted an “acute shortage of pickers ...

But No One To Pick It," farmers are struggling to pay competitive wages for voluntary cotton picking due to economic pressures and government interference. The report indicates that although ...