How was cotton produced?

Answer 1

Cotton is from a cotton plant. It is grown in huge fields and the plants get fairly large. About this time of year the grower sprays the plant with salt or sometimes a defoliation chemical ( it stinks) and the plant dies. When this happens the cotton bolls open and a machine called a cotton picker can go through the field. If it rains in this time the cotton will turn from white to yellow which will lower the price of the cotton. Once the picker has gone through it will keep going through the filed until it can get no more cotton. The raw cotton is taken to a cotton gin in a big open wagon and processed into cotton bales. The bales are huge and each bale is wrapped in burlap and numbered. The cotton bales are sold at a auction to be made into fabric and other things.

Answer 2

After cotton has been harvested, producers who use conventional tillage practices cut down and chop the cotton stalks. The next step is to turn the remaining residue underneath the soil surface. Producers who practice a style of farming called conservation tillage often choose to leave their stalks standing and leave the plant residue on the surface of the soil.

Answer 3

Cotton is planted by seeds in furrows in the spring months. A green bushy plant develops with white flowers. It grows all summer and in the early fall the plant is killed off leaving the cotton bolls in the field. If it rains at this time the white cotton boll turns yellow and this will bring down the value of the cotton. The farmer picks the cotton using a machine called a cotton picker and the picked cotton goes into a cotton trailer. It takes about 3 times through the field to get all the cotton. The full trailer is taken to a gin processed and seeds removed . The cotton is packed into large bales and are sold this way.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

How Cotton is Grown

After cotton has been harvested, producers who use conventional tillage practices cut down and chop the cotton stalks. The next step is to turn the remaining residue underneath the soil surface. Producers who practice a style of farming called conservation tillage often choose to leave their stalks standing and leave the plant residue on the surface of the soil.

In the spring, farmers prepare for planting in several ways. Producers who plant using no-till or conservation tillage methods, use special equipment designed to plant the seed through the litter that covers the soil surface. Producers who employ conventional tillage practices, plow or "list" the land into rows forming firm seed-beds for planting. Producers in south Texas plant cotton as early as February. In Missouri and other northern parts of the Cotton Belt, they plant as late as June.

Seeding is done with mechanical planters which cover as many as 10 to 24 rows at a time. The planter opens a small trench or furrow in each row, drops in the right amount of seed, covers them and packs the earth on top of them. The seed is planted at uniform intervals in either small clumps ("hill-dropped") or singularly ("drilled"). Machines called cultivators are used to uproot weeds and grass, which compete with the cotton plant for soil nutrients, sunlight and water.

About two months after planting, flower buds called squares appear on the cotton plants. In another three weeks, the blossoms open. Their petals change from creamy white to yellow, then pink and finally, dark red. After three days, they wither and fall, leaving green pods which are called cotton bolls.

Inside the boll, which is shaped like a tiny football, moist fibers grow and push out from the newly formed seeds. As the boll ripens, it turns brown. The fibers continue to expand under the warm sun. Finally, they split the boll apart and the fluffy cotton bursts forth. It looks like white cotton candy.

Since hand labor is no longer used in the U.S. to harvest cotton, the crop is harvested by machines, either a picker or a stripper. Cotton picking machines have spindles that pick (twist) the seed cotton from the burrs that are attached to plants' stems. Doffers then remove the seed cotton from the spindles and knock the seed cotton into the conveying system.

Conventional cotton stripping machines use rollers equipped with alternating bats and brushes to knock the open bolls from the plants into a conveyor.

A second kind of stripper harvester uses a broadcast attachment that looks similar to a grain header on a combine. All harvesting systems use air to convey and elevate the seed cotton into a storage bin referred to as a basket. Once the basket is full, the stored seed cotton is dumped into a boll buggy, trailer or module builder.

Answer 6

Worldwide, the largest producers of cotton are China, the U.S., and India. Cotton needs to be grown in areas that are warm, and have both a rainy and dry season. As far as the U.S. production of cotton, it is grown in the southern states. California is one of the largest producers of cotton in the United States.

Answer 7

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