Stan Hough, a missionary at the Brigham Young Home in St. George, shows off cotton that was grown on site. Each year, a small garden is planted with cotton, hearkening back to the reason "Utah's Dixie ...

Drought continues to tighten its grip across the Plains, and it’s forcing farmers in west Texas to make some very difficult decisions this growing season. Depleted soils, along with bleak forecasts ...

Walk into cotton fields across West Tennessee this year, and you’ll step into a snapshot of what 2023 produced. “This year we’ve got the potential to make a really good cotton crop in Tennessee,” says ...

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 ...

In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root ...

MOULTON, Ala. (WHNT) — Alabama is known for a lot of things, and one of it’s many titles is the cotton state. “Alabama’s known for cotton,” Mark Yeager said . “I think the earliest people that came in ...

SUMTER, S.C. — Cotton harvesting is underway around the rural areas of the Midlands, including in Sumter County. For a lot of famers this can be a team effort that requires other farmers like Glenn ...

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 ...

Cotton is the lifeblood of the Bangladesh RMG industry, with our country among the world’s four largest users of this miracle fibre. The other three are China, India and Pakistan, the latter two of ...

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