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Well dun young man 😁👍 next is you working the D11😝 I have Fath in ya 🤑😁

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I think about 2 ton 🤔

The next cotton video will explain it a bit more, basically to get every last bit means going a lot slower so it’s a juggling act👍

Not wrong. Have a great one and thanks again for your posts. Wish I was there. Cheers

in west Texas they have done studies on the amount of cotton on the sides of the roads and it adds up to a great deal less than it looks like.....of course they would like to get every bit possible to the gin, but it is a lot less than one would think......in the field some places they will run a picker and then run a stripper back through to get scavenge the leftovers, but you have to have a really good crop and prices to make that work......plus often times the quality of what is left is low enough that is will pull your grades down for the whole lot.......again it would be nice to get every last bit, but it is a lot less than it looks like driving by

Same as end rows👍

We got about 1 round bale to the hectare and they say about 2t I think👍😁

@@thejacksonbrothers thanks Matt I was just wondering about that. Use to see a lot along the Newell when I use to go to Brisbane

average 4,500 to 5,500 pounds.....sometimes they can go over 6,000 it just depends.....if it is the last bale, a rush, or some other issue they can be made a lot smaller.....if not running a burr extractor (the burrs being the brown dried pod covers that Bradley commented on when he was next to the bale) then your weights will be on the lower end

Yep they are contractors and they can only do cotton. Bales are around 2t👍

😂😂 the strippers have to wait for the dew to dry up then know off when it gets too wet at night, usually between 9am-11pm or so

@@thejacksonbrothersperfect working hours.

Thanks! I’m presuming it will be per hour👍😁

@@thejacksonbrothers Thanks

I think we talked with the agronomist about it in the everything about cotton video😁

@@thejacksonbrothers Oh ok guess I missed that one. I'll have to check it out. Thank you for the reply and direction on how to find the answer :)

It’s mainly so the cotton can access the moisture in the skipped rows later in the season when it’s trying to fruit👍😁

@@thejacksonbrothersNow it makes more sense 👍👍👍

Yes pretty much it means the cotton can access the moisture in the skipped rows later in the season when it’s trying to fruit👍😁

It’s mainly just losses through the front, I’m not sure what the percentage of loss would be🤔

Around 2000👍😁

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Maybe you people got it wrong driving on the right side of the road.

I used to roll and harrow paddocks when I was 13, rotary hoe at 14. Loved it, great way to spend school holidays or weekends.

on dryland cotton in an area that might not get a lot of rain you skip rows so the plants have less competition with each other and the roots can spread out especially if you get smaller amounts of rain that will only penetrate the soil a few inches at most.....so the plant can put out more shallow roots......it is a trade off getting some known yield vs. sacrificing some potential yield if you get better rains

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It would be about that yield per processed bale but it is about double that straight from the machine👍

That's hard to believe you can yield 800 lint lbs with that wide of skip. The world is very different compared to Tennessee. We plant 40 to 50k seed per acre on 40 in rows .

You do see the odd few still👍

there are still a lot in west Texas.....a lot of farms have kept their old strippers running and there is a business of spare after market parts and same for some non-bale pickers too......but the round bales are ever more popular

@@rodrod383 did not know they grew cotton in Texas. But I only was in the panhandle with a combine crew. Only worked in cotton in Australia

@@coenbroosh from about 200 miles south of Lubbock all the way to north of Amarillo is huge cotton country in Texas......then west to over almost to Fort Worth there are patches of it......then some north east of dallas as well there are patches......there are patches from Victoria, Texas all the way down the Brownsville too......a lot depends on if a good quality gin has stayed open in the patchy areas, but from south of Lubbock to Oklahoma it is huge cotton country.......there is a lot in western Oklahoma too and it is getting bigger in Kansas now too with varieties that can make good lint with fewer growing degree days and less heat (most people never thought that would happen, but there are some nice new gins up there and it gives them another crop rotation like The Jacksons are using it for).....I am a bit jealous most people talk about working on a combine crew for the rest of their life especially if they get on a good one.....fortunately almost all are good to great ones

All depends on the season, we are very thankful👍😁

cotton cost a lot to plant and it can cost a lot to spray and in their case I think they were doing it for a rotation to break weed patterns and with skip row they probably had some extra spraying.....and it is somewhat labor intensive, but they have a strong hard working family and crew.....and some specialized equipment like pickers and bale movers......but with good management, a good crop and with a good price for seed (sold as cattle feed and dairy cow feed) you can do as well or better than other crops

Not sure of the ins and outs but it seems to be normal and probably looks worse than it is. I think in lighter crops it can be worse

@@thejacksonbrothers that's good then!

No idea, someone else may know though👍

A new picker next season I think is 1.7 million delived. I have no idea but assume as a stripper is more complex it would be more expensive.

@@benjaminbauer4883 strippers are generally less complex I would say and I think in the USA you are looking at $1 to $1.2 million new....I might be wrong on that prices can be all over the map depending on a lot of factors and because they are really pretty specialized and not an "all over the USA" machine

You would use 50 buks worth of glad rap just trying to cover it