Blacksburg, Va. – Virginia Tech researchers are working on technologies that could create a new industry from a problem in the state's cotton-growing region. "Our goal is to add a value to the cotton ...

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in April and have been busy ...

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 ...

A south Lubbock County cotton gin hopes to speed up its ginning efficiency with its new equipment, especially since the High Plains is expected to yield a record crop. Lubbock Cotton Growers purchased ...

On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...

MONETTE, AR (KAIT) - It is a rare occurrence to build a completely new cotton gin. "Once in a lifetime, you can't just up and build one every 10 years. They cost a lot of money." said Dewayne Couch ...

CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) — The end of summer in South Texas means just one thing to area cotton farmers -- time to clear the fields and bring in the harvest. Tractors are in motion and farmers are ...

Cotton has been cultivated for use in textiles since the fifth century BC. The development of large-scale spinning machines from 1738 onwards made it easier to turn raw fibres into cotton cloth, which ...

According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits. Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...

Cotton Bolls on the Plant cotton tile plant tile / Getty Images MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis cotton gin was shut down on Wednesday for failing to obtain an air quality permit, the Commercial Appeal ...

Solving problems in the commonwealth's agriculture sector is part of Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' mission. Blacksburg, Va., March 11, 2005 -- Solving problems ...