With the slightest breeze, the raw, fluffy cotton seems to dance, tethered precariously to its nearly dried-up boll. Then a loud, lumbering harvester, driven by Armando Burruel, tears it from its husk ...

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 ...

John Deere said it will spend $29.8 million to expand its Thibodaux plant, a move that will create 70 jobs and allow the company to shift cotton harvester manufacturing from China to the U.S. The new ...