Modern Cotton Harvester - Pretty Amazing Machine

[N Turner]

My son made this video for school on how a cotton picker works. If you like ag machinery, you will enjoy seeing this one at work.

 

[sahara]

Very interesting, thanks for posting. I didn't realise that Cotton was grown as far North as Oklahoma, I had always associated it with the Southern part of the US.

 

[Martin Holden]

Well done that man! Very clear and informative. Giving LauraFarms a run for her money!

 

[N Turner]

Very interesting, thanks for posting. I didn't realise that Cotton was grown as far North as Oklahoma, I had always associated it with the Southern part of the US.

We have a long history of cotton here in Oklahoma, but recent new varieties have pushed the growing region even as far north as middle Kansas.

Thanks for watching!

 

[N Turner]

Well done that man! Very clear and informative. Giving LauraFarms a run for her money!

Thanks! We are a subscriber of two behind her!

Young boy cute has a hard time competing with her kind of cute.

 

[Martin Holden]

Thanks! We are a subscriber of two behind her!

Young boy cute has a hard time competing with her kind of cute.

Different cute both have a place so “crack on” with some more. How about the next stage in the cotton process and also the growing of it. Is a one time crop or does it flower again and again? What’s the margin and yield like? How much cotton does one round bale make for example?

 

[N Turner]

Different cute both have a place so “crack on” with some more. How about the next stage in the cotton process and also the growing of it. Is a one time crop or does it flower again and again? What’s the margin and yield like? How much cotton does one round bale make for example?

Great questions. He did a videos on cotton planting and cotton ginning, too.

Most of your questions are answered in those videos. The crop has to be replanted each year.

Cotton Ginning

Cotton Planting

He has about 30 some odd other videos, most on agriculture, but other topics as well. And keep the ideas and questions and feedback coming - we plan to keep this up as part of his homeschooling.

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[feilding]

I've seen the cotton picker machines in sheds, but not working when I was in Australia. a small farm I visited, it was only 20,000 acres, 10000 acres of cotton, and 10000 acres of wheat. they had 5 cotton machines. nice video, well done.

 

[Pilatus]

@Farmer Roy has mentioned and shown a few pictures of cotton pickers. From memory they cost a lot more money than a combine harvester!!!!

 

[Farmer Roy]

@Farmer Roy has mentioned and shown a few pictures of cotton pickers. From memory they cost a lot more money than a combine harvester!!!!

New JD CS690 ( cotton stripper ) & CP690 ( cotton picker ) are both around the $million mark, but they are very complex & sophisticated machines.

I’m driving one of these, bare in mind this was after the hottest driest season recorded, at the tail end of 4 - 5 years of increased temps & greatly reduced rainfall, so the crop reflects that. The fact there was even anything to harvest was remarkable in itself.
A few Australian modifications, an extended 12 m front, extra handrails & platforms / walkways around the machine & running on big singles on 3 m centres, rather than duals on 2 & 4. With all that, the price is up around $1.2 million or more

 

[Richard Devon]

New JD CS690 ( cotton stripper ) & CP690 ( cotton picker ) are both around the $million mark, but they are very complex & sophisticated machines.

I’m driving one of these, bare in mind this was after the hottest driest season recorded, at the tail end of 4 - 5 years of increased temps & greatly reduced rainfall, so the crop reflects that. The fact there was even anything to harvest was remarkable in itself.
A few Australian modifications, an extended 12 m front, extra handrails & platforms / walkways around the machine & running on big singles on 3 m centres, rather than duals on 2 & 4. With all that, the price is up around $1.2 million or more

Has Australia pretty much transitioned to the JD balers/module makers like this and the Case module express now or are there still farmers/contractors running basket machines with seperate module builders?

Over the years I worked with the Case 2555s and CPX420s 4 rows up against the JDs........as a "Case-man" some elements on the CPXs really lacked investment....like the auto-header height and putting the backet into and out of working position

Do you get penalised much for leaf-trash in the stripped cotton?