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 ...

The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...

Bill Newsom and Chase Sain receive 2026 Ginner of the Year Awards for their contributions to cotton processing innovation.

RECTOR, Ark. (KAIT) - Farmers in Region 8 may not have to travel far to get their cotton ginned. One company has been ginning for generations. Graves Gin in Rector processes locally grown cotton that ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits. Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Boone Hall Plantation is celebrating the completion of a newly renovated multi-use event space on the property. The historic Cotton Gin House was built in the 1850s for ...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...

On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...