Water scarcity continues to constrain cotton cultivation, while insufficient investment in agricultural research limits ...

There is a "glaring lack of transparency" regarding the names and quantities of chemical inputs in all countries except the ...

Optimizing fertility management through nutrient replacement based on crop removal is key to maximizing cotton yields, ...

There is an abundance of natural and synthetic materials available to today's consumer, but when it comes to clothing and ...

Arizona, for better or worse, doesn’t get the heavy rain other cotton belt states do. Excessive rain can severely damage the “grade” or quality of the white fiber and how much growers get paid for it.

Pivot Bio, Wayzata, Minnesota, has commercially launched a new product for cotton crops in the United States. The product ...

This new cotton plant can still be used as a fiber. It’s the work of Dr. Keerti Rathore. He works in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A & M. Dr. Rathore says, “with the toxin ...

In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco ... Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic ...

which has the highest-quality fiber but cannot withstand central Arizona's extreme heat. Arizonans are also better covered for planting cotton than other crops in the desert. Insurance subsidies ...

Meanwhile an amazing 93% of the 2021 crop was exported. We grow cotton – we don’t use it ... Oil is used to produce polyester, and polyester fiber has become the dominant clothing fabric.