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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Even as climate and committed farmers help AZ rank high for cotton, organic markets, seed production and tech innovation could be the crop's future.