West Texas Cotton Gin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Visiting a cotton gin was an excellent way to end our cross-country roadtrip!! We got to see so many amazing people and places. I am so thankful for the opportunity to share everything I've learned with you guys. Thanks for watching! I hope to do more videos like this in the future. Now, back to Nebraska for harvest and field work.
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Regarding your thanks at the end: if a marketing study was done, I’ll bet a very large share of us watch because of your cheerfulness. Never discount the way God has blessed you with cheerfulness.
Eli Whitney would be very impressed with this operation.
We always knew that farmers grow the food we eat, but we don’t always give them credit for growing our clothes. Thank You.
I hunted pheasant in cotton fields in central California in the early 70s but I never realized what it took to make the jeans or t-shirts I wore growing up. Thanks Laura and Grant for showing us that we shouldn't take for granted where are food and clothes come from.
Perfect ending. Most superhero movies don't have sequel teasers that good!
Great video. Hey Grant, we need you to do a 360 burnout in your cool car. LOL 😂 Hey y’all can come to Louisiana and video the pine tree plantations, the saw mill process, and the making of plywood, different size lumber, how they clear or select cut the trees, how they plant cutovers, etc. There is so many different modes of farming. Like my Dad told me years ago after being stationed overseas in the military, America is the greatest country in the world. Stay safe.
And Louisiana sugar cane! Very unique crop!
Great story, great job!
Laura
Come to the hill country when you’re in Texas. It’s beautiful and you can tour all the vineyards around Fredericksburg and see how we grow grapes for wine.
We’d love to have you guys.
Watching your conclusion to this video Laura. I am 60 years old and was in the FFA 40 years ago plus and I can remember at the time that the state was made when we were at the convention in 1978 Kansas City that one American Farmer at that time would feed and or clothe 45 families besides his own, I think the last statistic I heard now we were over 80 the efficiency and the dedication the American Farmer as far as I'm concerned has no match anywhere else in this world. And I am proud extremely proud to be part of that industry and I'm also deeply pleased as a man my age looking to see people like you and Grant and watching you take up the mantle from my generation your responsibilities are going to be greater and you're going to have to feed and close more than we did but watching you too young people and others like you on these TH-cam channels if my mind when I see people like you ready to take up the reins of our industry here you and Grant and other young people like you are the future of agriculture in this nation in the future of the nation itself and I have no right as a complete and total stranger to tell you how proud I am of you and these other young people that I watch on TH-cam like you but you guys are great I am happy that through the miracle of technology I've gotten acquainted with you
Your ticket to heaven has been punched with your visit to West Texas. I grew up in Lubbock and live in Amarillo for 33 years (1991-2024 present). I was a fire fighter in Lubbock in 1977 and put out a gin fire in the staging yard. Back then, cotton was brought from the field, to the gin, in cotton trailers (now extinct). The flat terrain background in this video brings back great memories when I lived in Lubbock. You and Grant have a great channel.
you're good at explaining this... even if you are just repeating exactly what you're told--you're good at this
Laura and Grant are great Ambassadors for Agriculture.....!!!!
"Laura Farms" is about the only thing good thing to come out of the Covid epidemic. Good job.
We’ll Miss Nebraska…I’m pretty sure I heard you use a very “Texas word”….”They drove us all over tar-nation” 😂🤣😅 Love it!
This was a fabulous, educational, and entertaining video! The whole process for Cotton is pretty amazing. Thanks for showing us the ropes! Love ❤️ you, Grammy
I've lived close to these fields for 40 years and had no idea how any of this works. Very interesting. Thank you for the show and tell.
Grew up in cotton country in Georgia in the 1950s. What a difference in the industry now. Thanks for sharing this.
No matter where I have ever went, I love factory tours.
Wow, this is just another 4+ excellent video from Laura Farms. Many thanks. I might add that it is easy to see why Grant smiles so much!!! Well done Laura and Grant and all involved.
This brings back so many memories of growing up in West Tennessee. Much different with the automation and technology than the 70s and 80s when I helped my Papa and Dad.
You should plan a trip to the cottonseed mill to see all they do with the seed, that will make your head explode. Good job in the cotton patch and the gin...🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👆
Fantastic video. Farming on a scale that most countries can only dream of.
I loved both of your Cotton picking and cotton gin posts..Growing up in Iowa and Illinois I was familiar with farming of corn and soy beans..Now living in Texas you should make a trip to Granbury in the fall to participate in a Pecan harvest ...The Anthony Family owns a Pecan Plantation ..We live on the Plantation but have nothing to do with the Pecan Orchard ..But it is interesting to see how the trees are taken care of and the trees are tended and shook to drop the pecans ..Maybe they will let you and Grant shack the trees ...LOL
So much thanks for the learning of cotton..its incredible..good day..
Been a cotton farmer in Arizona Gilbert so many years of arrigating picking discing plowing planting cultivating lot of hours and care and then worry about cotton weavles , crop dusting oooweee, stick what you doing girlfriend but at the end of the day it's satisfying it's in our blood for generations to come, with cotton I'd just go naked💯🤣
Welcome to the most beautiful American farmer.
When I was a kid in Arizona in the early 60's I lived across the road from cotton fields so I would cross the Irrigation ditch and pick a little bit of cotton. And we had a Cotton gin in our town. I'm 63 now and this is the first time I've ever seen the process. It's really something to see. Thank you for sharing this video. It was very enjoyable. And brought back some great memories..
I just drove through that area of Texas for a trip from San Antonio TX to Cascade MT, and back. The cotton was being harvested when we drove up and down I-27. You need to go to South Carolina and see a peanut harvest. Sugar Beets in the Saginaw Valley area of Michigan.
Being a city guy/retail consumer only its nice to see how the raw products in the field make there way to the store. Keep up the great work on showing us just how much all types of farming effects our lives. I think you guys should take a few more "field" trips.
Cotton is the fabric of our lives!!!
This was cool. We grew allot of Cotton in AZ.
Great video Laura, very informative, interesting and enjoyable, bye from San Antonio, TX 🤠👍
I echo what these other folks are saying. Thank you to you, and your husband for taking us along to see this and all of the other wonderful and informative destinations you take us to. Great channel.
"Tarnation"! Haven't heard that outside the movies since I was a kid...
Ginning has come a long way just from the late '80s and early '90s ! I was a ginner in West Texas for a number of years. Where everything was pretty much old school. We even manually bagged, and wire strapped each bale. Modules were rare and a treat once a few farmers advanced in their harvesting capabilities. Otherwise it was suction tubes and trailers ! One had to be on their feet as well back in those does, as fire detection wasn't as it is today !
We live in Crockett County Tennessee. Our county has numerous cotton farmers! Our five acres are bordered on all four sides by cotton fields. There are two cotton gins within 5 miles of our house. Much smaller in scale compared to the one you visited. Thank you for the informative video!!!!😎🇺🇸
Again, very impressive, I have never seen a cotton gin doing it’s thing. Thanks for taking us along it was truly awesome.
When I run the road in a semi truck I picked up part of a load of cotton in Oklahoma and then drove to Lubbock to load the other part of load. Those buildings look very familiar to me. After loading I then drove to Erin NC to a mill I believe they made bolts of material that would be used at the sewing factory to be made into the garments that we wear today. Today the material would be shipped over seas then made into garments then shipped back to the US as finished products store ready to be sold to the consumer thanks so much for your videos and keep them coming
Laura you do a magnificent job of representing your industry. Very interesting presentations, so informative. You have a God given talent, your energy is infectious. GREAT JOB!
Although I am Europe, I always liked the life of these people from Texas, they always have that smile and work with all their heart.
Thanks Laura and Grant for the tour. It is great to see this process.
Your charisma and joie de vivre are absolutely intoxicating. Whoever gets to stay with you is charmed indeed.
I’m working in the last part you shared. I’m driving one of the trucks bringing it from a gin to a Lubbock warehouse. It’s a busy time of year.
Family and I were with Lummus and Acco forever, I ran a old 90 then the 158.
I built a cotton Gin when I was in 5th grade 1973 for a history project.
Great video Laura, and I really liked the way you walked us through the process!
I was wondering if you met the "Cat Lawyer" while you were in West Texas ... :D
Like watching Mike Rowes dirty jobs. You’re good at rundowns and explaining processes!
Absolutely interesting. Learning agriculture. Everyone needs this
When I was growing up here in Arkansas, their were cotton gins every where, this day and time you have to look for them.
Thank you Laura for bringing us with you.
This was another brilliant video.
Coming from Ireland we definitely don't grow cotton so your video was really informative as all your videos are.
Laura your videos are first-class. 👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌🌹🌹🌹
Great video and great presentation, WELCOME TO TEXAS.
Hi Laura, I have enjoyed your cotton vacation video’s I live in North East Arkansas. We are a big cotton industry area too. All up and down the Mississippi river delta on east and west sides of River from St. Louis to Natchez Mississippi. Take a search for yourself about paddle wheel steamboats hauling bales of cotton through the port of Memphis Tennessee. I think enjoy it. Today I am retired from working 30 years in manufacturing, but as a young man I did work as a custom cotton harvester with two row international cotton pickers 1968 - 1978. I also visited Lubbock Texas 1972.
Thanks for bringing me along.
Slaton is near Lubbock which is about 55 miles north of where I live in Midland. We have cotton here too but mostly oil and natural gas. We are the heart of America’s petroleum industry.
Thank you Sis for the Fun .......
Thank You For what you do and for showing the world other aspects of Farming
Laura being born in the 50s ,little know fact,the trash...burrs used to be burned close to the gin....many of the men who worked in the Gin were addicted to the smell of the burrs burning. My Dad was. So glad to see cotton refining had improved. 😊❤ from Texas
Loved the whole cotton segment
Glad I find your video because I'm always lived in city. I like the knowledge how to farmers do things and are important to us citicent.
This was so very cotton pickin cool to see and learn about. Thank you!
I found those to be fascinating too! That is different then it is sold here. It is sold in the field . Then shipped to the gin ; loaded on the truck and sent straight to whomever bought it. The gin gets the seeds for their payment for ginning services and the trash is composted out back and sold by the gin
Keep up great video guys. Also sweet car looks fast.!!!😊😊😊😄😄
One of the best jobs I ever had was working in the storage areas of the cotton. Forklift a truck unload around 8-10 minutes
Thank you, Laura & Grant, for the awesome visit! We hope to see you around again!
Thank you so much for having us!
You are an amazing educator. I learn from all of your videos.
Coming from a family of cotton ginners I totally enjoyed this video!👍👍👍
This is awesome!
I'm here in Ottawa, Canada and this video was a real education. Thanks.
Enjoyed the episode more than anything on big network TV. Thanks..
Great content, very interesting. I can see another channel coming up. "Laura Farms On The Road" or "On the Road With Laura Farms"
Very glad you got to see one of the warehouse complexes. I am sure they told you but for the viewer's info, while this complex is the largest there are several warehouse complexes around the West Texas area where gins send their cotton.
I'm loving the road trips. Very cool. Thank you.
Thankyou for showing us around the gin. There is one about 70km from where I live in NSW Australia. I have harvested cotton in the 1980s once into modules.
thanks I learned something today watching this video. Of course I love your videos keep up the good work
Thanks for the farming and ginning of cotton. Very well explained. I learned something new and certainly won’t see clothes the same way. Cheers
You and Grant are awesome I love you guys enjoy the videos me and my daughter ! 🤠🤠👍🏻
Thank you Laura and Grant! 99% of America has not a clue what Agriculture does. They have no idea how it gets on their back or to their table. Great Videos
I love your chipper good mornings!
LOve this kind of videos love see more of this from farm to factory videos
Fascinating to see all the processing of cotton - thanks for sharing
Hi Laura, and welcome to Texas. I'm glad you and Grant could come and see what we do. Texas isn't known for raising food grade produce, except for beef cattle; some vegetables and fruits are grown down in the Valley, and some rice is grown on the Coast. Most of our produce is cotton and other fibers and sorghum for animal feeds. I have high hopes for the hemp business, once the politicos pull their heads our of their a__es.
There's more to it than that, actually; not that I blame you for not showing the whole process. It's much more than you could accommodate in a few TH-cam vids and just a vacation. However, the oil from the seeds has many uses, and it processed in facilities much like the cotton gin you visited. Even the waste-- seed hulls, mostly-- is used for animal feed. There's a whole other story in shipping the cotton as well; something I know about because I was raised in a cotton port. Suffice it to say, few people other than farmers know how incredibly much cotton Texas grows, and what we do with it. If-- rather when-- you are looking for a new subject, you could do worse than looking into some rice farming. And, just next door in Louisiana, there's a lot of sugar cane grown.
Nice vids. I'm glad you could come and see. And, since I welcomed you to Texas, let me also welcome you home. Texas is nice-- I think it's the greatest state in the Union-- but there's no place like home, wherever that may be. The best to you and Grant.
That's super cool to see . Things people have no idea about . Thanks for sharing
What a great find this channel is. It’s so fun. Thank you.
Always so bright confident energetic,thanks
8:35 Laura: "These forklift drivers are no joke"
8:43 Forklift driver: hits cotton bale 😂
Welcome to Texas!
Omgosh!!! Love all this information on your videos!!!! So addicted!!! 💫
This is my favorite thing to hear!!
Welcome to the great state of Texas and partically my area, west Texas. You were just a few miles from here in Idalou. Would've loved to meet yall. Hope for yall to be greatly blessed while here. God bless yall and thanks for highlighting. Texas cotton!
Thank you Laura, something I have always wanted to see. As many times as I have been thou Arkansas I never saw a gin. I fact my son lives in Arkansas.
I live down in North Carolina, we grow lots of cotton. My great grandfather and grandpa were gonna buy a cotton gin at one point but something went wrong and my great grandpa died of cancer before I was born and my grandpa's farm fell through back in the 70s.
Thanks for the ride along.
Throw that cotton sample on a Santa's chin and you've got a Santa Claus. Very useful Christmas morning especially among the nieces and nephews hoping for a Santa visit
very cool video, thanks. Geeeezzeeee Eli Whitney look what you did!
Thx, now i kow more about cotton. Have a nice weekend
You learn things so quick! You are quite amazing! Thanks!
We haul cotton seed from the South back up to Wisconsin for feed to the Dairy Farmers..
Another great video. nice how you show us the agriculture in your country. greetings from germany .
Very interesting and entertaining video, for your next adventure you should come to south Florida and explore the Sugar Cane industry......
Loved both videos on the cotton harvest thank you
When I was in high school. We used a big vacuum to get the loose cotton out of a trailer. It then went into the gin.
I went to Texas Tech and lived in Lubbock for 20+ years and never knew all of this! Fascinating to see the insides!