ISLE OF WIGHT — Dust flies outside Windsor’s Commonwealth Gin on a nippy October morning, as Isle of Wight County’s cotton harvest begins what’s likely to be a global journey that transforms locally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since it opened for business three years ago, Australian cotton gin operator Southern Cotton has employed radio frequency identification to track the cotton it receives, stores and processes, and ...

The Hardwicks, two brothers in Tensas Parish – long the state’s top cotton producing area – are among those continuing to plant the crop, despite little chance of making a profit. Their stubbornness ...