URUMQI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- On an October day, a giant cotton stripper roars its way through a vast expanse of snow-white cotton fields, leaving behind a long, straight swath. It reliably releases a ...

John Deere has a storied farm machinery history, with a steady chain of benchmark innovations that shaped the entire cotton harvesting process and industry from field to gin. In line with the ...

URUMQI, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- When the cotton harvest season started in October, the vast cotton fields in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region saw humming cotton-picking machines instead ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation ...

As China's cotton heartland, Xinjiang accounts for nearly 90 percent of the country's total cotton output. Thanks to ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The freezing temperature could hurt some crops tonight, but could actually be good for cotton. Keith Harrison is a cotton farmer in Meadow. “We’re not going to have to ...

Wispy dust drifting along Loop 101 is an annual sign of agricultural activity on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land just east of Scottsdale. Farmers are taking advantage of dry weather to ...

ODEM, Texas — Your typical clock says there are roughly 13 hours of sunlight each day during the summer. Jon Whatley has done the math. He's going to need every minute to finish his work. It's hot and ...