Out of the 69 entrants in the Coolest Thing Made in Iowa contest this year, the makers of The Moose Fireplace Grill managed to secure a top-four finish, losing out to winner John Deere for its CP770 ...

A cotton picker turned mechanic turned musician, “Daddy” Mack Orr became a fixture in Memphis nightclubs and international ...

What happens when a vintage Stearman biplane is matched up against a modern cotton picker? This unexpected mechanical ...

The John Deere CP770 cotton picker, manufactured in Ankeny, has emerged as winner of the 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa ...

Deere’s CP770 cotton picker, which can harvest fields of cotton at about 5 mph, beat out 68 other nominations and had the most of the 93,000 votes cast in this year’s contest.

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) has named John Deere’s CP770 cotton picker as 2025’s Coolest Thing Made in Iowa. The award, first presented last year, honors innovative products ...

The contest started with 69 products, representing manufacturers from 51 Iowa communities. After the first round of voting, the John Deere cotton picker earned the No. 1 seed in the Top 16.

John Deere's CP770 Cotton Picker, manufactured in Ankeny, Iowa, won the 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa contest. The contest, sponsored by the Iowa Association of Business and Industry and ...

Women cotton pickers in Matiari district are launching a climate literacy campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change and the need for safer working conditions.

Higher wages for cotton pickers, which incentivized volunteers to sign up for harvests. In addition to the MDTF, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and ...

HYDERABAD: Female cotton workers from Sindh’s cotton-producing districts gathered at the Hyderabad Press Club, where they raised strong demands for justice, fair wages, and improved working conditio ...

The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system; problems rooted in continued state efforts to ...