PHOENIX — Adam Hatley and his family have been growing cotton for decades. “My dad starting farming out here in 1976, and I joined him in 1986,” he said. Hatley now owns Associated Farms. He grows ...

GOODYEAR — On a Christmas Eve some 75 years ago, five siblings in the Rayner family walked into the living room of a small house north of Estrella Mountain and found it stacked with presents like they ...

According to cotton historian Stephen Yafa, “cotton was domesticated simultaneously in India and Peru some 5,500 years ago.” Cotton, and cloth made from it, gradually moved west to Europe and north to ...

PHOENIX - Cotton became a cash crop for Arizona, and today, our state remains a leading cotton state. However, this year, the state's farmers are growing less of it. Ron Rayner and his family have ...

Some Arizona farmers are facing tough times as the Trump administration’s trade war with China continues with no end in sight. Farmers across the nation are coping with the loss of sales to Chinese ...

In the fall of 1917, on a cotton farm in Hearne, Texas, entomologist Ivan Shiller documented the first pink bollworm sighting in the US. The insect, named for the characteristic pink color it develops ...