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 ...

This episode explores Georgia's cotton industry. Georgia is where the growing of cotton commercially began and where the cotton gin was invented. This episode explores Georgia's cotton industry along ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is introducing a bill to help land-grant universities develop new technologies for American farmers in cotton-growing states such as Georgia and Florida. Senators ...

PERRY, Ga. — Blake Bledsoe has been farming for nearly 30 years. However, this cotton season, he and his team at the Minerva Plantation Farms in Perry are dealing with something unlike anything he's ...

While some farmers are breathing a sigh of relief after Hurricane Idalia’s pass through the state, others in deep South Georgia were left with fields of mangled cotton, hundreds of downed trees and ...

America lost its top rank for cotton production in the middle of the last century, its mark as the top exporter to Brazil three years ago.

ATLANTA — Georgia's cotton producers have been warned to be on the lookout for an invasive insect that feeds on the state's top crop. The Cotton Jassid (Amrasca biguttula) was first detected in ...