John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

The Chinese government's chief spokesperson has compared Uyghur cotton pickers in Xinjiang to plantation workers in the American Deep South as Beijing sought to accuse the U.S. of hypocrisy on ...

There have been some cotton pickers devised bef ore the one which is the subject of our illustration, but none of them were self-acting, all requiring to be turned by a crank, or some other equally ...

Here we are … in another week of harvest. The kids and I started our week still in south Texas harvesting milo. We cut milo for a couple more days. We were able to wrap up our milo harvest for 2022 ...

Reports from Uzbekistan contradict the government's claim that it has phased out its internationally-criticized policy of forcing citizens into farm fields to pick cotton every autumn. Under pressure ...

Every fall, Yang Qizhi treks thousands of miles from Henan province to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to pick cotton. For the past eight years, the 52-year-old has earned about 13,000 yuan ...

ROBSTOWN, Texas — Robstown, Texas is making headlines nationally for its long-time mascot, the "Cotton Picker," as people question not only how it came to be, but how it has been allowed to remain the ...

Located just off U.S. 61 in the small South Delta town of Rolling Fork is an art gallery where customers find works created from discarded metal pieces that once served purposes likely unfamiliar to ...

ROBSTOWN, Texas — Nearly 150 Robstown ISD students were picked by their teachers and counselors to receive a special Christmas gift. Teachers looked for students who exemplified a hard working student ...