Posted by mb58 on October 30, 2012 at 20:28:00 from (98.80.77.12):
In Reply to: cotton, educate me posted by ericlb on October 30, 2012 at 06:12:24:
Raised a lot of cotton in my time. Haven't since 1991 though. Here in La. if we got a bale to the acre we were happy. Nowdays they make two without blinkin an eye. We used to pick it over once, then go back and scrap it. Usually you scrapped on average a bale to every eight to ten acres, sometimes more, sometimes less. The scrapping was considered your profit. Now they deleaf it, pick it once and cut the stalks. Not much cotton around here now. Only three gins running in the parish. Used to have about twelve. Cotton is still purty labor intensive but not nearly what it was twenty years ago. But corn has replaced King Cotton in our area. So much easier and quicker to raise and harvest. And corn has even beat cotton profit-wise over the last several years. I don't think we'll see cotton coming back anytime soon.
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