PHOENIX — Adam Hatley and his family have been growing cotton for decades. “My dad starting farming out here in 1976, and I joined him in 1986,” he said. Hatley now owns Associated Farms. He grows ...

A popular weed killer used on genetically modified cotton and soybeans could be off limits for 2024, a move that could raise already high costs for growers in Arizona. A federal court in Arizona ruled ...

PHOENIX - Cotton became a cash crop for Arizona, and today, our state remains a leading cotton state. However, this year, the state's farmers are growing less of it. Ron Rayner and his family have ...

According to cotton historian Stephen Yafa, “cotton was domesticated simultaneously in India and Peru some 5,500 years ago.” Cotton, and cloth made from it, gradually moved west to Europe and north to ...

Some Arizona farmers are facing tough times as the Trump administration’s trade war with China continues with no end in sight. Farmers across the nation are coping with the loss of sales to Chinese ...

As farmers see hay and alfalfa prices tanking, cotton production in Arizona is expected to rise by 4 percent this year, industry experts say. “And I expect to see the same things next year because ...

There was a blurb in the paper recently that said it takes 700 gallons of water to make one cotton T-shirt. Is that true and if so why? Cotton is pretty wonderful stuff, and we grow a lot of it around ...

In the fall of 1917, on a cotton farm in Hearne, Texas, entomologist Ivan Shiller documented the first pink bollworm sighting in the US. The insect, named for the characteristic pink color it develops ...