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 a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

John Deere has a storied farm machinery history, with a steady chain of benchmark innovations that shaped the entire cotton harvesting process and industry from field to gin. In line with the ...

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.

is your neighborhood reporter for Robstown and western Nueces County. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — On Monday, The Cotton Picker Centennial Celebration took place in Robstown, a time for the community to ...

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 ...