Dryland cotton farmers continued to take it on the chin in 2024 after a record hot summer and little beneficial rainfall.
After years planting cotton, a growing region has built up a soil pest that sucks the life out of crops — but there may be a ...
Cotton takes a long time to grow, and you can only plant it in March, which means that you should at least prepare two or three fields to have enough yield. Cotton needs to be converted into bales ...
Global climate change is expected to significantly alter Türkiye's cotton production landscape by the 2050s, with the Marmara ...
Cotton can thrive in heat and, indeed, needs those warm days to produce its fruit, the lint bolls usually spotted in fields during the ... into the soil beneath the plant. Drawing the deep ...
Now, researchers hope they have an answer — one that means cotton fields can take a break, without taking a break. Farmers often plant a break crop in between their main crops to return ...