Pinal County cotton farmers have overcome extreme heat, drought and water scarcity and maintained high yields.

Cotton: Cotton, particularly the locally grown and widely known Pima variety, became a cash crop for Arizona farmers around 1910. Plant yields are used not only to make clothing, but also as ...

Since Arizona's statehood, the 5 C's have pointed to economic opportunities. But 100 years later, do cotton, citrus, cattle, copper and climate matter ...

According to Randy Norton, who leads research efforts at the University of Arizona’s Agriculture Experiment Station, about 106,000 acres of cotton were planted across the state this year.

Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...