LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - As cotton harvest starts to wrap up, it’s full steam ahead for our area gins. KCBD stopped by two cotton gins to get an update on their progress and the challenges they face.

Taylor County cotton farmers are glad to turn the page on 2024 — if for no other reason than in the hopes of a better harvest ...

Temperatures in the 80s and 90s are welcomed this week across West Texas and the Texas Panhandle, as growers seek the “open fall” that helps finish the cotton crop. Hot temperatures and a few storms ...

Cotton growers are facing devastating losses and delays from Hurricane Helene just as harvest was beginning, marking the latest blow to profits in an already weak market. The storm ripped through the ...

Aug. 30—Kerens is getting ready to celebrate its annual Cotton Harvest Festival, which it hosts the third weekend in October each year. In the past, each autumn the cotton crop was gathered and ...

No matter where you travel in west Texas this year, the story is the same. Drought and heat created an endless battle for area cotton farmers. “It was a devastating year,” says Casey Jones, a farmer ...

The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin — announced the ...

Founded in 1954, SUPIMA is less than 1% of global cotton production out of California, and supportuing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SIGMA) to regulate water use and preserve resources.

As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan government, in ...