A piece of history in the town of Queen Creek that was once at risk of being torn down will now be saved, thanks to the ...
DOERUN, Ga. (WALB) - It’s been a month since an EF-2 tornado ripped through Doeun and destroyed a cotton gin and it’s going to take more than a clean-up to get it back fully operational. The structure ...
The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin — announced the ...
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - More cotton gins are closing or merging with others every year. As the drought took a toll on farmers’ operations, gins couldn’t harvest enough cash flow to stay afloat.
The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...
SHORTER, Ala. (WSFA) - If you ask the Milstead Farm Group President Shep Morris, he’ll tell you the tornado that destroyed his property seemed much stronger than an EF2. “They said it was an F2, but ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Boone Hall Plantation is celebrating the completion of a newly renovated multi-use event space on the property. The historic Cotton Gin House was built in the 1850s for ...
In Texas, cotton is king. Approximately 8.8 million bales of Texas cotton were produced in 2017, more than three times Georgia, the second closest cotton-producing state yielded. Everything seems to ...
Federal investigators uncovered scores of labor violations in the cotton production industry. In a 17-month stretch between November 2019 and March 2021, authorities investigated 71 cotton gin ...