PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...

The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...

The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin — announced the ...

The history of cotton farming in the Wiregrass may have been overshadowed by the story of the boll weevil and the peanut, but cotton is still a strong part of the region’s economy, said Dowe Clark, a ...

MERETA — It's been 3 years in the making, but the new Lonestar Farmers Co-op cotton gin has opened. The facility is located 3.5 north of Mereta, and about five miles east of Veribest on Hwy 380. The ...