Smooth harvests start with proactive maintenance. Check and repair key cotton picker parts now before next season.

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 operation ...

China has developed what is being touted as the 'world's first' laser-based cotton topping machine. With cotton picking being a manually laborious task, the new machine—which is an autonomous robot—is ...

Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Built in 1943, Old Red was one of the ...

When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary ...

Two cotton pickers operate in a cotton field in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Chinanews.com] This year, 1.8 million mu (120,000 hectares) of cotton was planted in Kuqa county of Xinjiang ...

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 ...