Ever since cotton farmers began drawing pictures of module-building cotton pickers on their shop floors, they've speculated about how much the new machines could save in equipment and labor costs.

The long anticipated announcement that John Deere’s model 7760 on-the-go, module-building cotton picker will be commercially available in ‘09 came at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio.

Case IH has finally unveiled the “worst-kept” secret in the cotton industry: a new six-row picker that builds half-size modules and can drop them in the field, in tact, in less than a minute. The Case ...

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The concept of mechanical cotton pickers goes to back to pre-Civil War days, believe it or not, but it remained only a pipedream for almost a century. Donald Holley, a professor of history at the ...