Impossible To Predict... Cotton Harvest #9 (10/27/24)

[@gregsasser2640]

In the 1960s and 70s in southeast North Carolina, the shoulders of the roads had green and cured tobacco. I miss the smell of tobacco curring on late summer nights.

[@johnkruger3661]

Keep your eyes open Matt could be a power line through the field cheers to you and your team from Bundaberg Australia

[@Bill-Morr55]

Good afternoon Griggs family, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I hope the harvest continues to go smoothly and I hope you have a good week ahead 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@gilreynolds9282]

Interesting story about the cotton on the edge of the road.

[@dukapaducha]

Another good one Matt, happy to see you having some decent weather for your end of season harvesting. Hope all continues well until you can take a break. Kelly looks like she's doing good. Take care and all of that.

[@gregrhodes8451]

Enjoyed the video Matt! God bless you all.

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all

[@jamesnewton1956]

Daddy raised cotton and would hire people to pick it. One year he could get no one to pick so he hired a cotton stripper machine to pick about 40 acres. That when I saw my daddy crying after that machine when through.

[@owensanford482]

Did your Dad have you "walking" cotton wagons when you were a young-en? I use to live for those weekends when I was in elementary school or before i had my drivers license. The smell of defoliant and cotton spindle grease! The guys on the farm were glad to let me pump those headers full of grease in the mornings...

[@griggsfarmsllc]

Yep spent my whole childhood tromping trailers and pulling cotton out of baskets

[@owensanford482]

HA!! We had some old local folks that made 'oak strip' baskets. We used them in the field and in the gin for the over flow room. They said white oak worked the best and they were strickly "pull" type. (no wheels) and they lasted forever dragging them on the cement floor of the gin. Good Stuff right there! I enjoy your video's and hope you and the gang stay safe.

[@case1020]

I know nothing about cotton pickers. Does the head have automatic height and lateral tilt control like corn heads?

[@griggsfarmsllc]

It has automatic height control. There is no lateral tilt. The left 3 rows have their own height control and the right 3 have their own.

[@oconeepumping]

Can you explain one day when y’all pick the cotton in the gin picks it up? Do you sell it to the gym or do a gin and then you can keep the bell and sell it at a later date? How does that work? Can you explain that thank you.

[@griggsfarmsllc]

The gin picks up the cotton. We maintain ownership of the lint portion of the cotton and sell it ourselves. The gin keeps the cottonseed portion of the cotton in return for the cost of ginning the cotton. We don’t have to pay to have our cotton ginned. If cottonseed prices are high enough, some years the gin will pay the producer for a small portion of the cottonseed.

[@אביבןעמי-ש9ט]

Helo from israel😊

[@charlietanner6211]

that looke like one of you,re bigger all in one place field s get more done in thoe kind good luck