A farmer from northeast Arkansas has announced her bid for the U.S. Senate. Hallie Shoffner, a Democrat, plans to challenge ...

According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits.(Jae S. Lee / Staff ...

Just six miles east of Temple in Bell County, the Oscar Store restaurant stands as both a gathering place and a piece of ...

By comparison, in 2023, the average volume per gin dropped a bit to 53,402 bales, but so did acres planted in Arkansas. That year, Arkansas cotton acres declined by 130,000.

The cotton gin building was about 45 by 35 feet and two stories tall. Altogether, Bibb said, the cotton gin dig cost about $25,000, which was funded in part by Franklin's Charge and in part by a ...

On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...

The gin now has the biggest cotton stand in the world. The Cherokee Magnum 244. 4 feet wider than Cherokee's current gin. The ginning season started late with the new construction, in fact they ...

Arkansas gained one more cotton gin, raising the number of active gins to 30 in 2020, according to numbers from the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The increase coincided with a year ...

It has been 60 years since cotton was ginned in White County. That will change this fall. A new cotton gin has broken ground outside of Griffithville. The gin will employ at least 20 people ...

This year's cotton harvest is over, cotton gins are cleaning up, making repairs and scaling down till next season. In Monette the new year will bring a new season and a new cotton gin as well.