Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, their ...

Better Cotton has revised its Principals & Criteria (P&C) to better emphasize social issues facing cotton farmers like labor, gender equality, quality of life and provisions for smaller landowners, in ...

National Cotton Council initiative promotes natural fiber over synthetic materials to reduce microplastic health risks.

AVOCA, Texas — Cotton is versatile and everywhere. Used in clothes and towels, it is important to many economies and a lot of hard work goes into harvesting it. “As the humidity decreases, we can go ...

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and climate technology company Planboo have announced a pilot project that aims to produce ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOULTON, Ala. (WHNT) — On Wednesday, ...

Paul Anthony Chacon (left) and Esteban Xavier Flores (right) are charged with murder in connection with the death of Joe Anthony Guerra in April 2022. As of December 2025, Chacon and Flores' murder ...

Improving soil health is in the best interest of Arkansas cotton farmers, but producers use different strategies for doing so, experts say. Bill Robertson, extension cotton agronomist, and Matt Fryer, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Over the last few years, South Texas cotton farmers have been dealing with government shutdowns, hurricanes, and trade wars. It seems like every year, if it's not one thing, it ...

According to the agriculture research group Farm Flavor, the cotton industry has lost more than $1 billion nationwide this year as exports have plummeted by nearly 90%.