The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin — announced the ...
The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...
The history of cotton farming in the Wiregrass may have been overshadowed by the story of the boll weevil and the peanut, but cotton is still a strong part of the region’s economy, said Dowe Clark, a ...