Cotton is one of the most valuable crops grown in the U.S., with a harvest value of some US$7 billion yearly. It is cultivated across a crescent of 17 states stretching from Virginia to California and ...

Founded in 1954, SUPIMA is less than 1% of global cotton production out of California, and supportuing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SIGMA) to regulate water use and preserve resources.

Cotton farmers in a major growing region have taken advantage of favorable November weather as harvest hits its stride. Kara Bishop, director of communications and public affairs at the Lubbock, Texas ...

I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

Hussein Gharakhani and Xin Zhang, both assistant professors in Mississippi State’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, are working to develop a robot that can harvest cotton. (Photo ...

No matter where you travel in west Texas this year, the story is the same. Drought and heat created an endless battle for area cotton farmers. “It was a devastating year,” says Casey Jones, a farmer ...