The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

The cotton gin used a simple yet effective mechanism: A hand-cranked roller with wire teeth pulled cotton fibers through a mesh. The seeds, too large to pass through, were left behind. Clean cotton ...

While the number of cotton gins in Arkansas has declined to tie the all-time low of 26 set in 2015, the state still boasts the nation’s busiest gin. The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) ...