Rosharan, Texas — Hi, y’all! We have been able to pick cotton for a few days now. The weather has been OK. We are dealing with late starts and quitting earlier. There is too much moisture in 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 ...

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.

Bishop, Texas — Hi y’all! We began our harvest in mid-May, harvesting wheat. We ended our harvest on Dec. 1, picking cotton. This is a normal harvest run for us. However, not all of our seasons work ...

Iowans have picked a winner and it is a picker. The crown of Coolest Thing Made in Iowa 2025 goes to a product from one of the oldest, most iconic manufacturers in the state's history: the CP770 ...

One of the John Deere’s most expensive machines – the CP690 self-propelled cotton picker with Precision Cotton Harvesting Technology - was first unveiled at Agritechnica. The Ankeny, Iowa-manufactured ...

ROBSTOWN, Tx — This Saturday, 55 groups from all over Texas will gather at Robstown Early College High School for the annual El Cotton Picker Mariachi Festival. “It means a lot to me, especially since ...

“If the cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first ...