OSCEOLA — The latest revolution in cotton production - a cotton picker with an onboard module builder - is on the job in Arkansas. "It's definitely an improvement," Heath Adkisson said last week as ...

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 ...

With the slightest breeze, the raw, fluffy cotton seems to dance, tethered precariously to its nearly dried-up boll. Then a loud, lumbering harvester, driven by Armando Burruel, tears it from its husk ...

A national shortage of cotton pickers, coupled with a bumper crop, has forced some growers in Central Queensland to turn to old school cotton pickers, to finish off their remaining crop.