Fred B Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 This is 2019 cotton crop. Looks really good. Just thought I'd show a photo of it. The blooms are showing at the tops of the plants. This is referred to as 'blooming out the top' meaning the blooms start first at the bottom of the plant and work upward. When all the blooms at the top are finished that means the cotton is finished producing for the most part. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWRB Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Cotton thread.... GET IT!!???!!?? Sorry, I have nothing meaningful to contribute. I live in NY. Unless you wanna see flooding... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 KWRB - yep, that's what I was going for. ? This lady bug seems to like this bloom. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool1566 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Where is your cotton patch located? Looks far along for any crop this year! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTO Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 That`s a looooooong way to that horizon! After all the tillage and planting, bet that a VERY fulfilling view for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafarm49 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 You must be in South Texas. Looks great!! I don't have blooms yet but its close 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta88 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Blooming out the top also means the crop is beginning to show a little drought stress. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 ?------to Fred B and the "cotton patch"!!!! So far I haven't seen a bloom over here in the Delta. This years crop is a "mixed bag"---------but as one of my old cotton growing friends used to say: "they don't play the World Series until October!!!" DD 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 I wish mine went all the way to as far as you can see, but this field doesn't go that far. There are a couple of other growers in between. It just so happens that we all planted cotton in the same area. This field was planted March 10. We actually just got through putting on growth regulator. I'm about 20 miles West of Corpus Christi, Texas. Early on we had a little too much rain at times. The crop at that time looked a little 'iffy'. Right now it is not hurting for moisture. Last year we started picking July 31. We try to have it out by the middle of August. It doesn't always happen. We always worry about getting a storm. Hi Anson, Hope we all come out OK on these crops. Fred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Used to feed a lot of "cotton seed cake" up in the sandhills. Was a great source of protein for our cattle and IIRC came in 100# burlap bags. Don't see it much any more, I suppose frt charges killed it off. DewEze now has a special caker for feeding cotton seed hulls. I saw one the other day and thought it was interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac81 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Here cotton seed in dairy rations is very heavily used local coop has a 25x95 harvestore for it constantly filling it too. They use 2 to 3 hundred ton of it a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleman Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 In the old days it was known as cotton seed meal, it was returned to us when our cotton was jined if we wanted the seeds ground. (they could be returned for planting?) Was used for fertilizer and animal feed and medicine remedies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 when my dad was alive and we always had cattle on the place dad would bring a load of our own cotton seed from the gin, and even though it still had some lint fuzz on it the cattle really liked it. i read somewhere, can't find it now, but there were 2 reasons for locating a gin near a river, water for the steam engine, and to run the cotton seed in the river, and let the water carry it away, (seed had no value) hopefully that idea didn't last very long. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Here is the cotton progress on June 21 this year, from earlier post. Started cotton patch harvest July 31. This morning started a portion the field above. Finished late this evening. Looks to be turning out a little better than 2.75 bales. Here is a photo of the finished portion, mostly just burrs. Here is the picker coming to the end of the row. Here is what I am looking at while I operate the module builder. I've never been on a ski slope but I think I know what they mean by snow blindness. The sunlight bouncing off the cotton causes me to pull my cap down almost to my nose, even with sunglasses and sunshade. Here is the 5488. Had to pull it out of retirement as the 7150 that we normally use on the module builder had a bad radiator. Not enough time to fix it. Here is the control panel in two languages for our area. I rarely go to the field with anything as it came from the factory. Here is the seat I put on it. I believe it is from a smaller Chrysler product. I can move a lever and I can lay it way back. Here is the throttle set up that I rigged up to operate the tractor. It worked much better on the 7150. In the short time we had, we couldn't get it to operate correctly from the tractor itself. Most operators just run the tractor wide open and leave it run that way all day. I often have a break between cotton basket dumps so this allows me to idle the engine. Still have about 10 days to go to finish. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 I took a picture of a large Fountain speedboat in Alexandria Bay NY tonight with a name you can appreciate, if you can zoom in on it. it has a home port of Arkansas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dirt Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 ??---------looking good Fred B. Was just wondering a couple of days ago if you were picking. Sure do like that "laid back" seat you got there!!! Hoping they don't have to wake you up when the picker pulls up to dump.? Crop over here in the Delta is still a mixed bag-------for the most part Cotton will be late vs recent years. Corn, soybeans, and rice harvest is just around the corner. A little of the early corn harvest has just started------be moving pretty good this time next week. DD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmall666 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 6 hours ago, Rawleigh99 said: I took a picture of a large Fountain speedboat in Alexandria Bay NY tonight with a name you can appreciate, if you can zoom in on it. it has a home port of Arkansas. CANT READ IT..WHAT DOES IT READ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 2 Dollar Cotton Hot Springs, Arkansas it 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Rawleigh i remember the 2 dollar cotton,that's where it ought to be, but it didn't stay very long. i didn't get in on any of it, but it looks like it bought someone a nice boat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eason Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 That boat was built less than 20 miles from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 HI Anson, you got it right on snoozing in the laid back seat. about 2:00 i get real sleepy i can lay back, and about then the picker will roar up to dump. ? next year we hope to have one of the round baler pickers. our grain sorghum did real good also, as did the area corn. Easton, can i take it that Fountain is the make of the boat . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta88 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Lots of producers went back into cotton this year due to a favorable price in the mid '70s. That has changed in the last few weeks. Lets hope we see higher prices or the uptick in acres will go the other way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny bill o Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 IN 2018, I was fortunate enough to be in Alabama 3 times- in the spring as cotton planting was starting, for RPRU in June, and in October as cotton harvesting was underway. In the fall, we watched a field being picked right by the road, so I took some pictures of the process. the module builder was run by a well worn 1466, while the cart had a nice MX 200 with A/C. totally logical. Interesting to watch, but I learned enough over the trips to know that I didn't want to grow cotton- not that its possible this far north. Not to hijack your thread, but it is machines (other than tractors) that we never see up here. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twostepn2001 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 The cotton crop here in west Texas is kind of spotty. Some places got 3 plantings rained out or hailed out until it was too late to re-plant. But other areas got timely rains and got really good stands. My nephew is a manager of a gin NE of Amarillo at White Deer, Tx and as of right now he's not sure if there is enough cotton to even run the gin this year. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred B Posted August 16, 2019 Author Share Posted August 16, 2019 NY Bill, thanks for adding the photos. Very nice. To my knowledge there is no red picker operating in my county. (I have two of the red ones sitting at my house but my son deems them too slow, they are only four rows.) At one time there were very few John Deere pickers -- now there are no red pickers. Almost everyone within the last 5 or 6 years have gone to the John Deere round baler type pickers. Stepn, I had to look up White Deer, TX. Now I see it just somewhat below Perryton which I am familiar with as in the 1990s I made a couple of tractor shows at the Golden Spread Antique Machinery Shows on the Donald Sell farm just east of Perryton, where Donald and his brother Dan had a disbursement sale. I drug home several tractors from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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