Deltapine cotton varieties are growers’ best choice for proven genetics and traits in 2026.

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 ...

Cotton, and specifically cotton grown in the United States, offers brands and retailers and their customers a compelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to spot Caleb Wertz’s fields along the farmland east of Las Animas. About half of the Wertz family’s land is growing corn but the other half is filled with scraggly, foot-high plants dotted ...

Walk into cotton fields across West Tennessee this year, and you’ll step into a snapshot of what 2023 produced. “This year we’ve got the potential to make a really good cotton crop in Tennessee,” says ...

Cotton farmers in a major growing region have taken advantage of favorable November weather as harvest hits its stride.

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. For years, organic cotton was a tough sell for the average American consumer. The consumers who did opt to pay extra for organic products tended to prioritize ...

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