Marshall Hardwick is chatting with me from his truck, parked in front of his cotton field in Northeast Louisiana. After our call, he’ll begin harvesting the crop. Most years, he has no idea what the ...

The U.S. is the world's leading cotton exporter, with an industry estimated to generate more than $21 billion of products and services a year. Drought and climate change are having an effect on the ...

Cotton farmers are in the trenches of nurturing their high-intensive crop. For Georgia farmers, extremely wet conditions created a slow start, but as the crop popped up, farmers like the Musselwhites ...

In a development with major implications for the next farm bill, House Republicans inserted provisions in a $81 billion disaster aid package to make cotton growers eligible for the Price Loss Program ...

photo credit: Arkansas Farm Bureau, used with permission. Cotton was removed as a covered commodity in the 2014 farm bill. Since then, Congress and industry stakeholders have been working to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona cotton growers say they are paying the price of the ongoing trade war, with exports plunging nearly 90% this year and many family farms facing uncertain futures. Despite ...

Red Land Cotton got its start making high-quality bed linens from the co-founders' family cotton farm in Alabama. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the American textile industry packed its bags ...

What’s wrong with cotton subsidies? Let’s count the ways, using information from the WSJ editorial today “The Cotton Club“: 1. Cotton subsidies primarily benefits large corporate farms and their ...

The red dirt girl has returned to the farm holding a cotton sheet. The heirloom sheet’s white borders contain agriculture’s elusive full circle wrapped in a single farm package. The father-daughter ...

Victoria’s Secret has created a new partnership with a Black-owned cotton farm, Bridgeforth Farms, in north Alabama. The initiative is meant to advance diverse suppliers for the large retailer’s ...