Stan Hough, a missionary at the Brigham Young Home in St. George, shows off cotton that was grown on site. Each year, a small garden is planted with cotton, hearkening back to the reason "Utah's Dixie ...

I was up in Natchitoches last year and picked up a tuft of cotton from one of the plants on the edge of a cotton field. I kept it on my desk for a while, and recently, I planted the seeds that were in ...

Glimpses of green sprouting in fields across West Texas, are also producing signs of hope as any soil moisture in this area of the country is cherished. “Compared to the last two years, we’re a little ...

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Urban growth has paved over many cotton fields, pushing them out of Maricopa County to other parts of Arizona. In Arizona, cotton yields are five times higher than a century ago as farmers learn to ...

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