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 ...

There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...

China has developed what is being touted as the 'world's first' laser-based cotton topping machine. With cotton picking being a manually laborious task, the new machine—which is an autonomous robot—is ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Built in 1943, Old Red was one of the ...

Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly ...

When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary ...