Cotton is a widely-grown crop and its seeds are full of protein, so you might think they'd be a great source of food. Unfortunately, though, they're toxic to humans. That said, such is not the case ...

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 ...

Witness the mesmerizing journey of a cotton plant's life cycle in this captivating time-lapse video, spanning 205 days from seed to boll. Watch as the cotton seed germinates, grows, and transforms ...

Those programs, called Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC), were first enacted in the 2014 farm bill as a replacement for the costly Direct Payments program. As part of a ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 23 (UPI) --The cotton industry hopes to launch a new market for a genetically modified cotton plant whose seeds are edible for humans. The push comes after the Food and Drug ...

As consumer demand for organic cotton soars, so does skepticism over the sustainability of the sector. The response must not be to retreat from organic cotton, but to invest more in supporting farmers ...

Farmers looking to address plant-parasitic nematodes and diseases in soybeans and cotton now have access to a new seed ...

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Jamie Jamison still has the 1996 copy of Spin-Off magazine dedicated to cotton and color, the issue that inspired her to plant her own cotton. A member of the Southern California Handweavers’ Guild, ...

Let’s abandon, once and for all, the childish delusion that documentaries are, or should be, objective. Would you spend three to five years of your life making a film about a subject you didn’t feel ...