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 mold ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre ...

Another quality issue is the impurity caused by 100% manual picking. As pickers handle, store and transport cotton, contamination occurs, causing spots on the final product. To address the ...

Cotton is one of the most valuable crops grown in the U.S., with a harvest value of some US$7 billion yearly. It is cultivated across a crescent of 17 states stretching from Virginia to California ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest is getting under way, and once again rights activists are reporting cases of forced labour. Staff at state-owned companies are being driven out to the ...