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 ...

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 ...

Neil Lee’s family has tended to the soils in a pocket of southwest Georgia since the 1980s, and he launched his farming career in 2001. The Dalton, Ga., area is ideal for growing corn, peanuts and ...

Drought continues to tighten its grip across the Plains, and it’s forcing farmers in west Texas to make some very difficult decisions this growing season. Depleted soils, along with bleak forecasts ...

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Ginning, blowing, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting, sewing, ironing, shipping and trucking — all the steps it took to turn some cotton bolls into your T-shirt. Those ...

A Boston-based startup is trying to revolutionize the textile industry by fundamentally altering how we create one of its most important crops: cotton. According to Bloomberg, Galy, a new company, is ...