The fibers are baled, purchased by mills then spun into thread. Once cotton has been spun into thread it is either exported or sent to U. Approximately 3. From here, your clothing, money, baseballs, and more are made. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. With any delay in the harvest came the risk that storms could damage or destroy the cotton remaining in the field.
This challenge was met with the invention of the hydraulic module builder in There are two methods of building the modules:. Depending on the machine, modules may be long, tall rectangles or round--huge tightly wrapped cylinders--of compressed cotton.
Pickers can continue harvesting the cotton, unimpeded by ginning problems or delays. After ginning, cotton fiber and seed go different ways.
The clean, fluffy ginned cotton fiber, now called lint, is pressed together and made into dense bales weighting about pounds. Cotton bales are shipped to mills to make cotton thread and fabric.
The seeds are packaged for shipping to be used to make oil and animal feed. Past and present, traditional and contemporary, the bright, bold Gee's Bend quilts are explosions of creativity and improvisation.
Irregular blocks, lush silks and velvets, lavish embroidery -- Victorian crazy quilt patchwork. New cotton plants. Irrigating a Texas cotton field. Mechanical picker spindles pick and twist the raw cotton fiber from the bur, and the raw fiber is captured in a basket on the back of the picker.
For example, this updated technology allows them to track crop areas with better yields, which can help improve results when they plant again.
Next, the harvested cotton is converted into modules envision a long, tall rectangle of compressed cotton that would fit perfectly into the back of a tractor trailer. This happens one of two ways: 1 harvested cotton is first dumped into a boll buggy, and then into a module-builder where it is compacted into a tight block or 2 an onboard module-building cotton picker is used, which creates the module as the cotton is harvested.
Obviously option 2 is more efficient since it saves a step, and allows more time to be spent harvesting the cotton. A single module of cotton typically weighs 20, pounds. Once the module is tagged and taken to the gin, the true transformation takes place.
Ultimately the goal is to separate the lint from the seed. The modules are then sent off to a cotton gin for processing. During the ginning process, the lint is separated from the seeds and is then pressed into rectangular bales. Each bale weights kilograms. It is then shipped overseas to be spun, dyed, knitted and woven into fabrics like clothes and home furnishings. There are a number of locally-bred and adapted varieties of cotton that can be selected and grown.
Varieties are generally chosen by growers based on yield, quality, disease resistance characteristics and biotechnology traits. Other traits such as season length, disease resistance and varietal determinacy also play important roles.
Fields are laser-levelled and graded, and if fields are not going to be planted with cotton again the following season, they can also be rotated either into another crop often wheat or fallowed. Fields are prepared for planting, weeds are controlled, and nutrients are added if necessary.
Most growers now leave their cotton stubble standing in the field and mulch it back into the soil to add valuable nutrients. Growers check the soil temperature regularly before planting. Cotton seed is planted in the spring, as soon as the soil is warm enough to be sure of satisfactory seed germination and crop establishment when the temperature reaches 14 degrees Celsius measured at 8am AEST with a rising temperature forecast for the seven day period post-planting.
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