August 22, 2022 by Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high school in Texas has come under fire after their mascot, the "Cotton Pickers," went viral this week. Robstown High School’s ...

Editor's note: Part of a series looking at the debate surrounding some high school mascots as Washington's NFL team and others have announced changes in 2020. Twenty miles west of Corpus Christi, ...

Robstown ISD's school nickname, the Cotton Pickers, is earning national derision by a leading national website which mentioned the school during a story posted on Saturday. TMZ.com ripped Robstown for ...

Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.

A cotton-picking machine manufactured at John Deere’s Ankeny facility has claimed the title of Coolest Thing Made in Iowa in 2025. Deere’s CP770 cotton picker, which can harvest fields of cotton at ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation ...