John Deere's CP770 Cotton Picker, manufactured in Ankeny, Iowa, won the 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa contest. The contest, ...

A cotton-picking machine manufactured at John Deere's Ankeny facility has claimed the title of Coolest Thing Made in Iowa in ...

A Black middle school student is alleging school officials in Brookline failed to address racial bullying after the student was called a “cotton picker” and a classmate mockingly reenacted ...

Following months of public voting, the Coolest Thing Made in Iowa contest announced its 2025 winner on Wednesday. The John ...

“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 ...

Some came as free-lance pickers (paying their own $10 entry fee), but the majority represented civic-minded cotton communities. Each entrant was given two half-mile rows to pluck. A good cotton ...

The cotton we are currently harvesting is about a bale and a quarter per acre, which is average for this area. The weather is going to continue to be the same for the next week, in the mid ’80s ...

What is the coolest thing that's made in Iowa? Well, according to thousands of votes over several weeks, it turns out it's ...

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) has named John Deere’s CP770 cotton picker as 2025’s Coolest Thing Made ...