Cotton harvest began for me last week her in the central Panhandle. Nearly all dry land cotton was failed by insurance and even some irrigated fields were failed due to poor stands. First photo is my stripper (notice the flag on the left side). The farm I was on is next to I-27 and had people turn around and come back taking pictures and giving the thumbs up signal. Second picture is in the field.
Cotton harvest
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hey Dex, you ever looked at the new pickers? not many up there, but they're something....
makes the 4-row I drove 30 yrs ago an antiqueComment
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Down here in the RGV we had 2 row pickers and before that it was pick by hand. I spent a lot of time picking cotton both ways, Also back then all the cotton bolls didn't open at the same time. Sometimes we picked a field three times. Also the cotton stalks would grow a whole lot bigger if we had a lot of rain. I remember cotton stalks being at least 8 foot tall sometimes and so thick you couldn't walk down a row. If you tried your clothes were green on the front from pushing through the branches. when the cotton got that big, there weren't many bolls and it was a bad year. My Dad always said thank goodness for crop insurance.👍 1Comment
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Anybody who used a John Deere cotton picker made anywhere from the mid 80s to late 2010s had a very good chance of using my dad's work. He worked as a welder in the John Deere plant in Iowa welding almost exclusively cotton pickers for many many years.The artist formerly known as Johnbutte1
What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. - Thomas Jefferson👍 1Comment
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Wish I had a picture of my first cotton stripper. It was state of the art 4 row IH 1800 that the basket when straight up when dumping and a chain feed unload system. I was 1/3 partners with my brother and Uncle on it, a boll buggy and module builder. Signed a $50,000 owner financed loan at 1% interest for 5 years with the original owner. My Uncle has since passed but my brother and I are still farming cotton on our own now.👍 2Comment
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My wife and her sister inherited about 5oo acres of dryland cotton fields in Dawson county, near Lamesa. they held it for 6-7 years before sellling it,
I think they made 2 crops. I told them they sucked as cotton farmers.
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a link only Dexter and a few of us understand...
Viewing a thread - Cotton stripper versus cotton picker
plus is from 10 yrs ago...
PS, my cotton picking days were in the early 90's.. out here, uvalde-medina co's back then pima cotton was all the rage
acct of price... pima was tuff to pick, tho acct of longer staple...a pima boll has 3 lock vs 4 for upland...
I dont think any pima has been planted here in many yrs...
if it was a good crop, we'd go back and scrap ( second pick after a couple weeks) to get late opening bolls
I dont think anyone scraps anymore, thoComment
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