A desire to improve cotton's environmental image has led Sundown's Danielle Statham to prioritise farm transparency and fibre ...

Cotton is a versatile crop with valuable fiber, seeds, and stalks. Its uses range from textiles and oil to animal feed and ...

Cotton is the soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the ... The invention of the cotton engine (also known as the cotton gin) by Eli Whitney is perhaps one of the most tangible outcomes ...

The gin solved the problem inherent in marketing short-staple cotton, which grew easily in warm climates -- the tedious and time consuming task of separating the seeds from the fiber. Whitney ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

This fibre-forward approach to traceability ... that its products contain genuinely organic cotton traced back to its origin during the ginning process. Haelixa CEO Patrick Strumpf said ...

A foreign agricultural giant has acquired Australia's oldest and biggest cotton ginning business for about $160 million, ending almost a year of bidding wars and intervention by the competition ...

Cotton Australia is launching new resources for schools in the form of activity sets aligned to the design and technology, ...