There used to be a lot more cotton grown is SE Arkansas, it's coming back somewhat but the cotton gins are gone now so they are moving to the pickers that roll it. Back in the day when it moved out of the fields loose in trailers it was very demanding of labor to get it from the pickers to the gin. Then the module builders (like what is seen in the photo) came along and there were fewer people in the field, the gins truck came and picked it up. Now the rolls. A local that I talk to from time to time that has been doing more cotton said he gets his entire cotton crop out by himself. He has a full time man that works for him 12 months out of the year and all his other help is "seasonal". They get everything else in and he lets everyone else go for the season then the two of them run a single 6 row picker that rolls it from "dew off" to "dew on" until it's done. As dry a fall as we had they could start about 10:00am and run till after midnight this year. Then they just wait for the gin to call to say the truck is coming, he loads it on a flat bed, six at a time.
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