Griggs Farms – How A Cotton Picker Works
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Hat tip Judd Clark, who adds “Ten acres/hour, doing the work of 250 or more hand pickers.”
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An evening pause: Technology that makes it possible for humans to live better lives.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who adds “Ten acres/hour, doing the work of 250 or more hand pickers.”
Enjoy your weekend!
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Interesting, no manual labor at all.
I remember reading somewhere that 1/2 of all pesticides made in this country goes on the cotton crop… Because it’s not a food it is not regulated like a consumable. Although this has other unintended consequences like people with sensitive skin getting rashes from their clothing.
Nestlé‘s coffee creamer product had a secret ingredient of cottonseed oil… Until they realize they’re giving people cancer. The oil was loaded with unregulated pesticides. Now they’re using “bio engineered product” for which there is no explanation. (my wife loves the stuff so I tell her I am the “control group” and we will see what is going to happen)
This is an interesting recent small study of farmers growing cotton.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10522852/
Judd-
Interesting video!
Ah, here we go, small blueberry farm, but not quite big enough to afford the $100K cost of a fully automated berry-harvesting machine. (which needless to say, is a very cool machine! We are living in the Future….)
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/6-figure-revenue-how-to-start-a-blueberry-farm-business/
Oxbo Brand
Raspberry & Blueberry Harvesters
https://youtu.be/bt73GOk4JRY
7:08
So what has Jasmine Crockett got against blacks running cotton pickers? I’ll bet the cabin is air conditioned today, too.
Everything causes cancer—whatever.
My Mom and Dad talked about picking cotton until their fingers bled—as children mind you.
The best medicine for cuts—kerosene.
When my Mom was a little girl, she saw smoke on the horizon. It was her house.
The only thing salvaged was a rocking chair thrown off the porch by her father.
i did suggest this after Jasmine Crockett said all of us misogynistic Nazis want to sent black people out to pick cotton by hand.
The end of the video shows some more modern machines, incorporating the baling function. For example, the John Deere CP770 cotton harvester has a 13.6 liter 550 hp engine and can run a 12 row head at 4.6 mph, producing big round bales that are eight feet wide and up to 96 inches in diameter and weighing about 5900 lbs.