Australian scientists believe they have found a way to crack the molecular code of cotton, so that it grows in a range of gorgeous colors, from bright yellow to deep purple to golden orange. These ...

I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

When it comes to growing cotton, success starts before a single seed is planted. Many growers focus on managing cotton after it has emerged, but successful management begins below the surface and ...

Stan Hough, a missionary at the Brigham Young Home in St. George, shows off cotton that was grown on site. Each year, a small garden is planted with cotton, hearkening back to the reason "Utah's Dixie ...

In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root ...

As growers plan for 2026, establishing a weather-resilient nitrogen foundation is becoming a key part of cotton fertility ...

CARPIO, N.D. — North Dakota is famous for its variety of some 20 commercial crops. Now, you can add peanuts and cotton. Well — on a very small but commercial scale. Marvin Baker is an organic produce ...

I was a teenager in the 1970s and just beginning my love affair with rural Arkansas. During visits to my grandparents' home in Des Arc, I enjoyed going on long drives by myself through the Grand ...

EPHRATA, Wash. — Farmers grow more than 300 crops in Washington state. Cotton has never been one of them. Until now. Augie Kooistra, owner of Augie’s Ag Sales in Ephrata, Wash., decided to try raising ...