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Alright, we're out here in the cotton patch. Uh, normally we strip our cotton. We run two strippers,
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12 row 30 eights on a John Deere CS seven seventies. There's always a debate on where we are. We're kind of on the line where people use strippers,
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mostly strippers here, but pickers kind of pick up here and go to the east and and north. And we've never known.
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We've always been pretty much stripper cotton. I've hired a picker before, but we've never had 'em side by side.
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So John Deere United, our dealer here, they brought us a picker to try. So we're gonna put, put the pants on all of it,
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see what's better so far, pretty impressed the picker. He's able to start earlier, run later, obviously picking cleaner.
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So the picker only picks the cotton and not the bird or the sticks usually. I mean, it'll get a few in there,
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but not many where the stripper's taken all this and put it in in the bell. So, efficiency wise, the, uh, the picker has the edge,
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but he is only six rows, but he runs the same speed all day, no matter the conditions.
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Typically, he's just running wide open for the strippers. It's too damp. They're sitting over here parked right now.
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Matter of fact, he's digging one out as we speak right now over there because it's too damp. We tried to talk too early with, with the stripper, uh,
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quality wise, ready to get some results back from the gin and see, uh, see how the grades compare.
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I know the turnout's higher on picker cotton because he's only picking the cotton, not the trash. So the bes so far on that picker are roughly 800
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to a thousand pounds heavier every day. So there's a lot of efficiency be gained there. Uh, I'm just ready to put the numbers to it.
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I'd be glad to share my results with anybody. I don't know, I don't know yet. Maybe a little more maintenance on the picker.
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Doesn't seem too scary to us so far. Uh, in this lighter cotton, the strippers, when it's dry, they can almost double the figure,
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but they're parked right now, so I don't know the numbers yet. When we get done, we're excited to see the numbers
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and compare everything and, you know, just see how it costs and how the cotton grades we're.
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We're always after selling a better product. So if it gets us a better, uh, better premium for our product, then we might entertain pickers.
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But, uh, results will tell. Time will fail. We got all the data. We're gonna have yield data, gen data, every bill.
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We have RFID tags, so it's, we're gonna be able to overlay data all the way back down to the field and, uh, and see grades and, and compare costs.
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