Picking cotton manually, as is still done in some major producing countries, is a meticulous task. Workers have to bend to reach the bolls and can hurt their hands on hard, dry parts of the plants. To ...

Crop projections were expected to drop after about half-a-million bales fewer were planted than initially thought back in June ...

The storm ripped through the cotton-growing regions of Georgia and the ... quality cotton is produced in that lower part of the plant — and that’s what’s going to be most vulnerable to ...

Cotton is an amazing plant to grow, and it hides a lot of its ... Ask any Texas farmer, and they’ll tell you 2023 was definitely a struggle growing cotton. With high heat and little rain ...

Last year, they didn’t have a dryland crop to harvest. This year ... other area farmers prep fields to plant, the risk is high. “When you talk about cotton, for example, anywhere from 40% ...

Southern NSW cotton growers valleys are eyeing another bumper season as planting wraps up across the region...Read More ...

While starting with the soil is a prevalent mindset among sustainability leaders, David René Rodríguez had a different ...

Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his ...

Farmers show newly-harvested cottons at a field in Menoufia Governorate, Egypt, Sept. 30, 2024. (Photo: Xinhua) A farmer ...

With more women becoming interested in clean and sustainable alternatives to tampons and pads, Desert Harvest is launching a ...

Walk a cotton field these days and it's easy to spot evidence of a looming financial calamity possibly awaiting Georgia's farmers. Puffs of the white material − soaked by rain and ripped prematurely ...

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.