You’re probably wearing something cotton-y right now. Cotton is fairly annoying to harvest. Mechanization was a quantum leap for the cotton industry, moving it away from archaic methods used since the ...

“If the cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first ...

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc.- The global cotton picker market stood at US$ 1.50 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach ...

Cotton pickers line up on Sept 1 to board a special train that will carry them from Xuchang, Henan province, to two-month jobs in Kuytun, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. NIU SHUPEI / FOR CHINA ...

Annie Kennedy did not expect to be running two cotton picker machines this year, let alone at seven months pregnant. Women are stepping in to more hands-on roles this cotton season amid a worker ...

ODEM, Texas — Your typical clock says there are roughly 13 hours of sunlight each day during the summer. Jon Whatley has done the math. He's going to need every minute to finish his work. It's hot and ...