The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Built in 1943, Old Red was one of the ...

Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly ...

Two cotton pickers operate in a cotton field in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Chinanews.com] This year, 1.8 million mu (120,000 hectares) of cotton was planted in Kuqa county of Xinjiang ...

Southeast Texas—Hi y’all. We’re picking cotton. All four machines are running. This is a fantastic day. The field we are currently harvesting is picking fairly poor. It’s yielding about 0.8 bales an ...

When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary ...