This year, instead of taking pictures of the actual harvesting of the cotton, I went to a local cotton gin to take some pictures of how they process the cotton after it leaves the field. With the drought, I was lucky enough to catch the gin on a day it was running.

Something relatively new to cotton harvesting is the round module. Basically, cotton pickers (I don't know if strippers can produce round bales or not) spit out these round bales behind them as they go, so they don't have to wait for a boll buggy. 

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