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You can get roughly a Bale an acre. If you are luckys maybe a bale and half. You can pick by hand in a full day a bale, only if you are a good worker. That's 500 pounds of cotton.
A tractor has to pick the bale and place it on a flat bed truck!
A bale of cotton in the United States typically weighs 500 pounds.
A typical cotton bale weighed around 500 pounds.
A bale of lint cotton typically weighs around 500 pounds.
Southern cotton farmers needed extensive hand labor to plant, pick, gin, and bale the cotton they grew. Without slaves, it would have been difficult to find affordable laborers.
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A bale of cotton typically weighs around 227 kilograms or 500 pounds.
The "Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA)" sets bale weight at 170 kilograms.
Based on a round round bale with a maximum diameter of 7 feet, 6 inches, the seed cotton weight can be up to 5,000 pounds and hold 3.8 bales of cotton lint.
The weight of a bale of cotton can vary, but on average, a bale of cotton weighs around 226.8 kg (500 lbs).