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, ...

One of the John Deere’s most expensive machines – the CP690 self-propelled cotton picker with Precision Cotton Harvesting Technology - was first unveiled at Agritechnica. The Ankeny, Iowa-manufactured ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Here we are … in another week of harvest. The kids and I started our week still in south Texas harvesting milo. We cut milo for a couple more days. We were able to wrap up our milo harvest for 2022 ...

ROBSTOWN, Tx — This Saturday, 55 groups from all over Texas will gather at Robstown Early College High School for the annual El Cotton Picker Mariachi Festival. “It means a lot to me, especially since ...