Farmers have several choices on how to compact their crop (full size modules, smaller modules or round modules). All of them are made so cotton, once picked, can be temporarily stored and transported to the gin. Those modules are tagged in the field to identify what farm & field it came from. … [Read more...]
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Cotton 101: After Harvest Comes Moduling
Pickers roll and depending on the equipment, there are a couple of different things that happen. As Alicia mentioned the other day, there is equipment called a boll buggy that may be involved, or a module builder or the picker can have an on-board moduling system. Cotton used to be put into wagons. … [Read more...]
Cotton 101: How Harvest has Changed in a Lifetime
One of the folks I met through the National Agri-Marketing Association, Robert Ratliff, recently help me connect the dots. Robert grew up on a cotton farm and had posted the photo to the left on his Facebook page. The caption on it pointed to a different machine that he used to pick cotton old … [Read more...]
Cotton 101: First Field Basics of the Boll
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSNK7UbRmg] So the reality is, I was so excited to finally get Alicia into a cotton field at harvest, that I was giddy. You can hear it at the beginning of this video. (Yes, I resoundingly admit to being an agnerd.) … [Read more...]
Cotton 101: A Country Girl’s First Farm Visit
Following is a guest post by my niece Alicia who's currently working on her masters in education at the University of Memphis (she's the fourth generation of women in my family to go there!). I've been lucky enough to have her living with me -- we both seem to be enjoying it! I so appreciate her … [Read more...]
Starting a Cotton 101 Series on the Blog
I thought I may need to warn a few of you.... I have a lot of cotton content building up in my head (on my cameras & harddrives too!). And what's worse is I've convinced my niece who's living with me to join the cause (I hope it is voluntary on her part, read this to understand). Last weekend we … [Read more...]
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