HARVEST HERBS: Remember to harvest herbs such as mints, basil, rosemary, lemon balm and Mexican tarragon regularly to keep ...

Cotton does well in Southern California but only in the ground. The plant sends out a tap root that can go down a foot in the first month, and the roots grow aggressively until the flowering begins.

Shelley and Joe Barlow and their son, Joey, grow about 400 acres of cotton. On a particularly good day, they can harvest about 50 acres. If they farmed in a math textbook word problem, they’d be ...

Taylor County cotton farmers are glad to turn the page on 2024 — if for no other reason than in the hopes of a better harvest in 2025. So how did last year’s cotton crop fare? “Not good ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - We’ve all been asking for rain for months, but cotton farmers now say it’s too late to save their crop. It’s now causing problems for area producers. Rain is always a good ...

Cotton growers are facing devastating losses and delays from Hurricane Helene just as harvest was beginning, marking the latest blow to profits in an already weak market.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The freezing weather has interrupted the cotton harvest this year, leaving farmers to assess how much damage has been done to their crops. When cotton bolls freeze, the weight ...

On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root systems digging into the ground. This experiment, dubbed Targeting Improved Cotton Through On-Orbit Cultivation (TICTOC), is designed to ...

Taylor County cotton farmers are glad to turn the page on 2024 — if for no other reason than in the hopes of a better harvest in 2025. So how did last year’s cotton crop fare?