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, ...

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...

“If the cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first ...

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 ...

Ben Pearson, who was born at Paron in Saline County in 1898, became known as the Father of Modern Archery. In the 1920s, Pearson made his first bow. He finished next-to-last at the 1926 state archery ...

The Loris Volunteer Fire Department responded to a cotton picker on fire in the Oakdale Community on Thursday afternoon. The fire engulfed the farm equipment, causing heavy smoke in the community on ...