I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

Drought continues to tighten its grip across the Plains, and it’s forcing farmers in west Texas to make some very difficult decisions this growing season. Depleted soils, along with bleak forecasts ...

Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use daily, including blue jeans, bedsheets, paper, candles, and peanut butter. In the United States, cotton is a $7 billion ...

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

Not exactly genetic modification, a new approach combines plant breeding and insights into cotton’s genome to help ensure you can have jeans in the future. Products derived from the cotton plant show ...

I was a teenager in the 1970s and just beginning my love affair with rural Arkansas. During visits to my grandparents' home in Des Arc, I enjoyed going on long drives by myself through the Grand ...