cotton harvest

twostepn2001 · Nov 2, 2011

Found this video that kind of explains the step by step complete cotton harvest, from field to finished bale. Tells the difference between a cotton stripper and picker, plus shows how modules are built and moved.
watch here

Chris(WA) · Nov 2, 2011

Thanks for posting that video! An interesting process. I had not seen cotton ginning since a film in high school. It's the 21st century everywhere!

thurlow · Nov 2, 2011

Figgered everybody knowed that...........'course I don't know nuthin about sugar beets and such.

snoop-nc · Nov 2, 2011

Thanks for posting this. I am a retired truck driver who has hauled untold loads of WHOLE COTTON SEED and COTTON SEED HULLS to dairy farms, feed mills, mushroom farms, and oil mill. IMO cotton ranks up there with soy beans for being the most versatile agriculture crop. I wish that we...as having a direct and deep interest in agriculture...could and would take the time to share this type of information/education with our city cousins. Our legislators need to be reminded of the $$$$ and "jobs" importance in the agriculture part of our world.

Thanks again....RICK

NW Ohio Tim · Nov 2, 2011

Thanks for that!! I've never been around/seen cotton harvested. It's on my bucket list.

I know more than I used to. It seems like just a couple years ago I was reading about them hoping the field built modules would catch on...... looks like they have.

thurlow · Nov 2, 2011

Tim..........actually the modules are kinda 'old hat'; do an image search for JD or Case IH pickers and see what the latest innovations are.

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old popper · Nov 2, 2011

That was a very interesting video to a "yankee Ioweagen" like me. I have said for years that I would like to see southern agriculture from planting through harvest. I would really like to see it as it was done in the fortys and fiftys. Great show.

cumminspuller · Nov 2, 2011

Great video! We have lots of cotton in North Alabama where I work and a little in southern Tn where I live. The strippers like in that video are not used around here any more, its a all picked cotton now. Its very interesting for sure.

gitrib · Nov 2, 2011

Somebody needs to have a video on Sugar Beets I have seen breif little videos but on by state groups but never the whole story. gitrib

in-too-deep · Nov 2, 2011

What would you like to know? They grow em in my neck of the woods.

BigMarv1085 · Nov 2, 2011

Very interesting. There used to be alot of it grown here. Ican remember my neighbors picking it by hand, then they paid a guy to pick with 2 farmall m's, later own he bought a John Deere 1 row picker that had a tricycle JD 1010 under it. He would take the picker off with a come along under a big oak tree. Another neighbor had a allis picker that was self propelled with a D17 under it. My understanding is that now the picker round bales the cotton and it rolls out the back. Cotton harvesting probably has under gone the most changes in any type farming we have today.

barnE · Nov 2, 2011

I picked cotton in SC when I was 6 years old. Wonder why the never paid me? Dave

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2011

Very interesting! Has changed a lot since I was a kid in Oklahoma where my folks raised cotton. That was 60 years ago. We did it all by hand. Chopped or maybe more accurately, hoed (thinned, weeded and cut the grass out)it three times, by hand..... no chemicals then..... along with the usual cultivating. Picked or what we called "snapped" (cotton with the burr) by hand. Only when you snapped the cotton did you appreciate no grass and weeds.... the result of the three times hoed. I never liked any of that process.... always said that was what ruined my personality. But, that was what you did in that situation. Didn't know any thing different so I guess it wasn't all that bad for the time. I learned how to work at a young age which was a good thing.

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