Ensuring your cotton harvest will be a successful one requires more than cotton picker parts in good condition. Your preparation must be as effective as possible, as any difficulties that your cotton may experience in its early stages of growth will prevent it from continued success throughout the growing season. Before the season starts, read
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Six Industries That Cannot Operate Without Cotton
Cotton growers must maintain not only their crop fields, but their machines’ cotton picker parts as well. How else would cotton get harvested fast these days? Once picked, the cotton gets stored or packed and shipped, and sent on a journey to its final destination. When we think about cotton, the first thing that generally
READ MORE5 Stages of the Cotton Plant: From Bloom to Harvest
The cotton plant is one of the most intriguing and interesting agricultural staples out there for a number of reasons. Not only is the cotton plant flower beautiful to observe for nearly its entire maturation cycle, it’s also interesting in how it develops from bloom to the final open boll. But when does cotton bloom,
READ MOREHarvesting Cotton: Square or Round Bales?
Across cotton fields, bales of freshly picked cotton are a common sight—it’s simply a natural step in the harvest. What might take some farmers by surprise, however, is seeing groupings of rounded cotton bales in place of the traditional square bales that have dominated the landscape for years and years. Where are these round bails
READ MORE5 Ways to Preserve Cotton Crop Yield Quality
It’s everything a farmer can do to keep their harvest free and clear of contaminants and detractors that might lower its overall quality or make portions of it unsuitable for sale. For hay, moisture and UV bleaching can be major detractors; for corn it comes down to pestilence and drought; and for cotton it’s all
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