China’s purchases of American cotton have cratered in early 2025 as weak domestic consumption and trade uncertainty weigh on ...

Massive cotton fields stretch for miles as hardworking farmers bring in an enormous harvest using cutting-edge techniques. From carefully tending the plants to using advanced machinery ...

Estimations for 2025 suggest a harvested area in the Cotton Belt of 7.8m acres and an abandonment rate of 18.4%. Applying a five-year average yield per state results in a predicted harvest of 13.9m ...

Big cotton is in the harvest cards, according to USDA’s latest report. Low commodity prices for corn, grain sorghum and soybeans pulled in more cotton acreage in 2017, and the numbers are ...

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 ...

As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan ...

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 ...

Although Uzbekistan has effectively eliminated large-scale state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest, ongoing government influence over certain aspects of the country’s agricultural ...

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 ...