Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

Even as climate and committed farmers help AZ rank high for cotton, organic markets, seed production and tech innovation could be the crop's future.

According to recent reports, around 150 acres of hybrid cotton have already been sown in Punjab and Sindh, shortly after the ...

After ginning, the seed has a fuzzy nap that makes seeds stick together; planting these clusters by machine makes “chopping” (thinning), necessary when the plants come up.

A cotton gin (short for cotton engine) is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, a job formerly performed by hand.

As seeds go in, there’s expectations a new gin will buy acres for years to come and those growers hope King Cotton will stick around.

Pinal County cotton farmers have overcome extreme heat, drought and water scarcity and maintained high yields.

Industry insiders fear cotton ginning and textile sectors may operate at less than 50pc of their total production capacity.

Pinal County cotton farmers have overcome extreme heat, drought and water scarcity and maintained high yields.

Stakeholders in Pakistan's cotton industry have united in applauding the government's recent decision to lift a decades-old ban on importing hybrid cotton seeds, marking a potential turning point ...

A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial Revolution.