There is an abundance of natural and synthetic materials available to today's consumer, but when it comes to clothing and ...

which has a longer and softer fiber than the more popular upland cotton. Arizona growers also contract with company giants to produce the seed planted across the cotton belt, making Arizona “the ...

BASF, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is expanding its industry-leading FiberMax and Stoneville cotton seed portfolio with the addition of six new varieties for the 2025 growing season.

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

Water scarcity continues to constrain cotton cultivation, while insufficient investment in agricultural research limits ...

Industry leaders agree cotton acreage will not expand in Arizona, but they see promise in contracts for seed, tech innovation ...

Pivot Bio, Wayzata, Minnesota, has commercially launched a new product for cotton crops in the United States. The product ...

The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing short-staple cotton, which grew easily in warm climates -- the tedious and time consuming task of separating the seeds from the fiber. Whitney ...