Cotton is natural, biodegradable, and eco-friendly, unlike polyester. Support the Plant not Plastics campaign to reduce ...

After years of losses, debt is piling up and new government payments won’t fill the hole. At a breaking point, more farmers ...

A field of a genetically modified variety of cotton called Bt Cotton with inbuilt insecticide resistance, in India. Cotton's environmental impacts are well-publicized (if not well-understood), ...

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 ...

Cotton is the backbone of the textile industry, helping to bring countless fabrics to life across the globe. Beyond textiles for the fashion, housewares and automobile industries, this versatile ...

A fifth-generation cotton farmer from North Carolina said it’s important to reach farmers where they’re at in order to continue the soil health movement. “The soil health benchmarks Soil Health ...

In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in south Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest. It takes 200 days for cotton to mature into the fluffy white stuff which is most valuable to ...

Fifth-generation Colorado farmer Caleb Wertz harvests his cotton on their family farm in Hasty, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. This is the second season Wertz has grown cotton. (The Gazette, ...