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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...

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 ...

DOERUN, GA (WALB) - Southwest Georgia’s rich farmlands have been hit hard by Hurricane Michael. Millions of dollars expected to be lost in the cotton industry alone. Click this link to see how many ...

"I knew if it went well and cotton acreage expanded, we would need a gin to reduce the distance we had to take our crop to be ginned," he says. Another farmer decided to grow cotton in White County in ...

MONETTE, AR (KAIT) - It is a rare occurrence to build a completely new cotton gin. "Once in a lifetime, you can't just up and build one every 10 years. They cost a lot of money." said Dewayne Couch ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technvaio forecast the global cotton ginning machines market is expected to grow by USD 17.20 million during 2021-2025. This marks a significant market slow down compared to ...

"I knew if it went well and cotton acreage expanded, we would need a gin to reduce the distance we had to take our crop to be ginned," he says. Another farmer decided to grow cotton in White County in ...