Pickers and Strippers

New Cotton Stripper Fits West Texas Farmers’ Efficiency Goals • By Mary Jane Buerkle • For generations, the Smiths of Floyd County, Texas, have embraced ways to help their fellow farmers by being leaders both in and out of the field. One...

Missouri Cotton Farmer And Ginner Shares Insights About Bigger, Denser Round Bales • By Carroll Smith • Editor  Allen Below, who grows mostly cotton in Stoddard, New Madrid and Wayne counties, Missouri, says farming is all he has ever done since he...

If I had to put a face on the pandemic, it would be a big, green, ugly Grinch with a furrowed brow and villainous eyes. Two years ago, it sneaked into the lives of people around the world and...

• By Vicky Boyd, Managing Editor • Nearly four years in the works, John Deere’s larger and more efficient CP770 picker and CS770 stripper were launched Aug. 2. The company will begin taking orders for the machines in October and anticipates...