For years, organic cotton was a tough sell for the average American consumer. The consumers who did opt to pay extra for organic products tended to prioritize food, and the markup on cotton just ...

Neil Lee’s family has tended to the soils in a pocket of southwest Georgia since the 1980s, and he launched his farming career in 2001. The Dalton, Ga., area is ideal for growing corn, peanuts and ...

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 ...

The Cotton Market is a significant global industry driven by various factors. Cotton producers play a crucial role in supplying raw fibers to textile mills. In turn, these mills produce cotton yarn ...

Urban growth has paved over many cotton fields, pushing them out of Maricopa County to other parts of Arizona. In Arizona, cotton yields are five times higher than a century ago as farmers learn to ...

Ginning, blowing, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting, sewing, ironing, shipping and trucking — all the steps it took to turn some cotton bolls into your T-shirt. Those ...