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are too scattered to be harvested by machines and still need to be picked by hand. In autumn and early winter, armies of cotton pickers swarm to south Xinjiang for seasonal work. The most ...

The owners can not only pick cotton by machine by themselves but also rent their pickers to others. "Renting a machine to pick one mu (0.067 hectare) costs about 200 yuan ($31), much cheaper than ...

At present, one out of three cotton pickers in Xinjiang is produced by CRCHI. An increasing amount of cotton is harvested by machines in Xinjiang. Data released by the Department of Agriculture ...

TANNER, Alabama -This cotton pickin' machine takes cotton picking to a whole new level. Haney Farms near Tanner in Limestone County has invested in what may be the ultimate cotton harvester.

ROCHELLE, Ga. — Someone buried a cotton picker--a machine the size of two garbage trucks--in a Georgia field in what investigators say may have been an attempt by a farmer to defraud his ...

The machine knocks some cotton to the ground, leaves some open bolls unpicked. It takes up more leaves and trash than Negro pickers do. There was no scientific measurement at last week’s ...

The machine knocked cotton to the ground and mixed leaves and stems with the cotton it picked, lowering the cotton's grade and price. The Rust picker signaled the death of hand-picked cotton and ...

Currently, over 7,000 machine cotton pickers have been put into use during the harvest season in Xinjiang, according to the regional department of agriculture and rural affairs. Xinjiang's overall ...