OSCEOLA — The latest revolution in cotton production - a cotton picker with an onboard module builder - is on the job in Arkansas. "It's definitely an improvement," Heath Adkisson said last week as ...
The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation ...
SCOTT — The old onerow, pull-type cotton picker at the Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott doesn't look like much, but it helped to launch a revolution. The inventor, John Daniel Rust, who died 55 ...
There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...