The Agricultural and Environmental Research department at Cotton Incorporated provides research and technical services to cotton growers, ginners and their support industries. The department’s objective is to improve the profitability of cotton through the creation and utilization of knowledge. It achieves this objective through outreach and research at leading Universities and other research facilities in a wide range of disciplines.  The division collaborates closely with the Sustainability Division to also reduce cotton's impact on the environment and help the U.S. cotton industry meet its 10-year sustainability goals.  Those goals include increasing water and energy use efficiencies, reducing soil erosion and increasing soil carbon, all while decreasing carbon emissions.

ASABE has made contributions to cotton producers for decades, including improvements and standards for cotton harvest and ginning; better irrigation scheduling technologies and help in allowing farmers to benefit from precision farming practices.  That positive relationship continues as we explore how to increase automation in the cotton production process and how concepts like the circular economy can benefit our growers.