Emily Jane Buehler

Cotton of the Carolinas – Cotton Harvest 2013

View over a cotton field that is to be harvested in 3 days
View over a cotton field that is to be harvested in 3 days
Our tour in the field being harvested
Unharvested cotton
Cotton bolls that the harvester missed
The harvester
The front of the harvester
The view from the cab as cotton enters the harvester
The view from the harvester
The view from the harvester
The view from the harvester
The harvester about to drop a bale
Bales of cotton
The cotton in a bale
In the cotton fields, person standing on a bale
Harvested rows
An empty cotton pod
An empty cotton pod
Cotton pods that did not open enough to harvest
Cotton farmer Ronnie Burleson answering questions
Trucks arriving at the gin with bales of cotton
A diagram of the parts of the gin
Inside Rolling Hills Cotton Gin, New London, NC
The bales of cotton entering the system
The actual gin part of the system
The gin with a fast shutter speed to show cotton bolls entering the gin, and seeds falling down below.
The shed where the seeds end up, to be sold for their oil or cattle feed
Hydraulic presses mash the ginned cotton into bales
Watching the cotton baler
Scraps of cotton litter the floor inside the gin

More info at http://www.cottonofthecarolinas.com/.