The Cotton Campaign, a coalition of human rights organisations, independent trade unions, brand associations, investors and ...

The Bajan government, in collaboration with Exclusive Cottons of the Caribbean Inc., is inviting unemployed individuals ...

China’s purchases of American cotton have cratered in early 2025 as weak domestic consumption and trade uncertainty weigh on ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre ...

The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system; problems rooted in continued state efforts to ...

Big cotton is in the harvest cards, according to USDA’s latest report. Low commodity prices for corn, grain sorghum and soybeans pulled in more cotton acreage in 2017, and the numbers are ...

Rolling fields painted white with the bolls of cotton plants in the heat of the summer sun brings back memories for many ...

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 ...

Post-harvest data from the region indicates the ... potential of RCS to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the cotton sector. The RCS initiative has been positively received within ...

As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan ...