In the early 1990s, Bailey & Sons Farms moved from 2-row pickers to 4-row pickers, subsequently transitioning to 6-row pickers, all while increasing overall cotton acreage. In 2011, the last ...

John Deere has a storied farm machinery history ... In line with the mold-breaking pattern, a new cotton picker and cotton stripper are the latest offering, significantly touted as “the most ...

Turkish startup Afara has developed a fully electric cotton-picking robot that could up farm production by 20%. According to the company, conventional self-propelled cotton harvesters leave 5-20% ...

The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system; problems rooted in continued state efforts to ...

Rayner witnessed the boom of cotton farming in Arizona at an early age ... when there were no mechanical pickers, and when the crop was enshrined for its economic promise as one of Arizona ...