A south Lubbock County cotton gin hopes to speed up its ginning efficiency with its new equipment, especially since the High Plains is expected to yield a record crop. Lubbock Cotton Growers purchased ...

ISLE OF WIGHT — Dust flies outside Windsor’s Commonwealth Gin on a nippy October morning, as Isle of Wight County’s cotton harvest begins what’s likely to be a global journey that transforms locally ...

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in April and have been busy ...

Flooding has affected the cotton harvest – but there is a harvest. And the cotton harvest sets the ginning process in motion. T&D Correspondent Yon Line takes you on a photographic tour of Middling ...

Solving problems in the commonwealth's agriculture sector is part of Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' mission. Blacksburg, Va., March 11, 2005 -- Solving problems ...

A group of kids with Duplin County 4-H visited Tri-County Cotton Gin farm on Monday, Nov. 22 and learned about the cotton ginning process. The kids, ages 5-18 were invited to see the ginning process ...

A well-known local businessman and pioneer in the cotton industry, known for his work in gin moisture control, has died. Samuel G. Jackson, company founder of Samuel Jackson Manufacturing Corp. - now ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

Blacksburg, Va. – Virginia Tech researchers are working on technologies that could create a new industry from a problem in the state's cotton-growing region. "Our goal is to add a value to the cotton ...