Texas Tech and the U.S. Department of Agriculture celebrated, signed agreements for, and broke ground on a new cotton classing facility set to go on the Tech campus. This is the first partnership ...

Texas Tech University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently cut the ribbon on a first-of-its-kind cotton classing facility on Texas Tech’s campus. The 30,000-square-foot facility, located ...

“Visiting Floyd was amazing. The building has much to offer and looks like an excellent learning environment,” said Martinez, standing with his wife near the spire that welcomes guests to Floyd Hall.

USDA was first directed to provide cotton classification services to producers of cotton under the Smith-Doxey Act of April 13, 1937 (Pub. L. 75-28). Therefore, the original classification of a cotton ...

With the High Plains cotton-growing region anticipating historic yields this season, the area cotton classing office may also grade a record number of bales. Kenny Day, area director of the Lubbock ...

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending regulations pertaining to administrative and operational procedures for the classification of foreign-growth cotton. In anticipation that cotton ...

UPDATE: Information from the Abilene classing office was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. Although both cotton round bales and modules fill gin yards or form an accumulated village of ...

A near-record cotton crop is making its way to market. But before it gets there, the job of grading it so farmers can get top dollar falls to a small number of “classing” offices across the country.

A group of more than a dozen textile executives from Pakistan visited Bartlett on Tuesday for a tour of the facility where the USDA tests and grades cotton bales. The visit is part of a larger special ...

Cotton is posting 141 to 185 point losses at midday, with nearby December up 3 points on thin action. Crude oil is down $0.26/barrel at midday, with the US dollar index unch. USDA’s Cotton Classing ...