Bart Davis was out on his farm a couple Mondays ago when he saw a gray cloud hang over the land. Next came hail and wind so strong one of his irrigation pivots was upended. Similar storms followed the ...

USDA is set to release its March Prospective Plantings report on Friday, which is the industry’s first official look at U.S. crop acres for the year. An area known as the largest cotton patch in the U ...

May has grown cotton for over three decades. His collaboration with others in the industry and commitment to adopting new ...

A punishing drought in Texas could be a boon for cotton farmers in Louisiana and Mississippi, helping fuel a rebound in the fluffy fiber after historic lows in the previous two years. The dry spell ...

TRENTON, N.C. — Cotton has been making a quiet comeback in North Carolina’s coastal plain since crop scientists figured out a way to beat the boll weevil 30 years ago. TRENTON, N.C. — Cotton has been ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Cotton is an essential product in the Concho Valley, and July's torrential rainfall had a silver lining for farmers who have suffered consecutive years of harmful drought ...

Despite some challenges, cotton production is expected to be better than average due to timely rains this season, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service reports around the state. Ben ...

ABILENE, Texas — In the Big Country, you don’t have to go far to find farmland, but have you ever stopped to think how it affects you if the farmers who tend to that land have a bad growing year?

Adam Hatley works with cotton seed companies to produce foundation and commercial seed from a desert region that gets little ...

GOODYEAR — On a Christmas Eve some 75 years ago, five siblings in the Rayner family walked into the living room of a small house north of Estrella Mountain and found it stacked with presents like they ...