When it comes to growing cotton, success starts before a single seed is planted. Many growers focus on managing cotton after it has emerged, but successful management begins below the surface and ...

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 ...

In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root ...

Researchers explore genetic modifications to boost cotton yields as producers face prolonged price stagnation challenges.

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, ...

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 ...