This is the first time I have seen harvested cotton. There are thirteen to fifteen bales of cotton in one of these "modules". Each bale weighs about five hundred pounds.
Cotton is worth about seventy cents a pound. So that's a pretty penny sitting beside the road:) And a ton of work, I don't even want to think about the chemicals.
Actually I just looked up the chemicals...It's not good. There are twenty or more insects, diseases and then there are the weeds that affect cotton. Each one of the problems is handled with all kinds of different chemicals....or course...And that's just cotton....tobacco, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sage, soybeans, corn....ugh:(
It started out as a cheerful post.....
Cotton is worth about seventy cents a pound. So that's a pretty penny sitting beside the road:) And a ton of work, I don't even want to think about the chemicals.
Actually I just looked up the chemicals...It's not good. There are twenty or more insects, diseases and then there are the weeds that affect cotton. Each one of the problems is handled with all kinds of different chemicals....or course...And that's just cotton....tobacco, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sage, soybeans, corn....ugh:(
It started out as a cheerful post.....
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