Rolling fields painted white with the bolls of cotton plants in the heat of the summer sun brings back memories for many ...

PRATTVILLE − The Autauga-Prattville Public Library main branch in Prattville has reopened after repairs, but the future of ...

In recent years, whiteflies and pink bollworms have wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in North India. Cotton yields are down, as is the area under cotton cultivation — the crop was cultivated in only ...

From the Food & Wine archives, Kingsley Amis delves into the history of gin and how moral panic (and a bit of poison) almost killed it. In August 1981, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an ...

Fear of cotton balls is also known as sidonglobophobia. Another term for the condition is bambakophobia, from the Greek bambaki, which means "cotton," and phobos, which means deep dread or fear. In ...

Only 1% of the cotton grown in the state is organic, but now there is infrastructure for that number to grow. The Chandler Ginning Company just got an organic certification for its Eloy gin and ...