I was on a school visit introducing myself as I began my workday with a group experiencing science through a local program ...

which is why the cotton plant’s fruit is called seed cotton. Picking cotton manually, as is still done in some major producing countries, is a meticulous task. Workers have to bend to reach the ...

Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular ...

Anthony Mackie reflects on his family’s past when playing Captain America:“My father was told he had to drop out of school in eight grade to pick cotton with my grandfather, and I’m Captain America.

Price supports for cotton are necessary, so the politicos say, to protect the nation’s host of small farmers. But last week Delaware’s Senator John Williams dug out facts to show that the ...

Staff at state-owned companies are being driven out to the countryside to pick cotton despite a pledge by the government to end such abuses, the Moscow-based Ferghana.ru news site reports.

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

A Missouri Senate Committee is considering legislation that would allow cotton to be transported faster to market – literally. The bill would raise the speed limit for cotton trailers on Missouri ...

4 Texas will lock horns with No. 6 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl for their College Football ... WWE legend "The Undertaker" wasn't pleased with McAfee's pick. On Thursday's episode of his ESPN ...