A cotton picker picks individual bolls and the cotton stripper harvests plant and all. The strippers have a ginning drum on them and the cotton is seperated from the trash and the trash is discharged very similar to how a combine seperates grain from chaff. The reason pickets are traditionally used in the delta and the south in general is because the plant is not damaged and the field can be gone over a second time a few weeks after the first harvest to get the late opening bolls, this used to be the common practice but high fuel costs and low cotton prices have pretty much put an end to the practice, that is also one reason stripper pickets are starting to be used in the delta. The varieties of low growing cotton that are sometimes called stripper cotton have long been grown in the drier areas, west Texas, Arizona etc. cotton strippers have long been the machine of choice in those areas. Cotton strippers also have far fewer moving parts and are much cheaper to buy and maintain as compared to cotton pickers. In a one pass harvest system the strippers harvest considerably more cotton per acre though the newer pickers are a lot more efficient than the pickers of just 5 years ago.
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