Dryland cotton farmers continued to take it on the chin in 2024 after a record hot summer and little beneficial rainfall.

A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in ...

Cotton and peanut acres surged in Arkansas during the 2024 growing season, but untimely rains likely cut into the quality of ...

“You get to reap the benefits of what you sow. And so, being able to come out here and get in the cotton picker and harvest a crop like this, when had you asked me a month ago what our cotton ...

In north Xinjiang, one of the largest cotton-growing regions, mechanisation covers 90% of farms, where machine-picking is being used everywhere. He added that the drought-resistant and water ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest is getting under way, and once again rights activists are reporting cases of forced labour. Staff at state-owned companies are being driven out to the ...

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 ...