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 ...

John Deere has a storied farm machinery history, with a steady chain of benchmark innovations that shaped the entire cotton harvesting process and industry from field to gin. In line with the ...

A cotton-picking machine manufactured at John Deere’s Ankeny facility has claimed the title of Coolest Thing Made in Iowa in 2025. Deere’s CP770 cotton picker, which can harvest fields of cotton at ...

August 22, 2022 by Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and ...

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...

Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.