You’re probably wearing something cotton-y right now. Cotton is fairly annoying to harvest. Mechanization was a quantum leap for the cotton industry, moving it away from archaic methods used since the ...

John Deere has a storied farm machinery history, with a steady chain of benchmark innovations that shaped the entire cotton harvesting process and industry from field to gin. In line with the ...

“If the cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first ...

John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc.- The global cotton picker market stood at US$ 1.50 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach ...

Annie Kennedy did not expect to be running two cotton picker machines this year, let alone at seven months pregnant. Women are stepping in to more hands-on roles this cotton season amid a worker ...

ODEM, Texas — Your typical clock says there are roughly 13 hours of sunlight each day during the summer. Jon Whatley has done the math. He's going to need every minute to finish his work. It's hot and ...