West Texas Cotton Gin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- 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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Grew up in cotton country in Georgia in the 1950s. What a difference in the industry now. Thanks for sharing this.
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.
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.
Thanks Laura and Grant for the tour. It is great to see this process.
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.
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..
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.
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.
Perfect ending. Most superhero movies don't have sequel teasers that good!
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💯🤣
Laura and Grant are great Ambassadors for Agriculture.....!!!!
Remember, Texas is not the only place in the United States where cotton is grown, so imagine how much cotton is grown every year. And yes, it does get cold in Texas. It even snows in South Texas and a lot of blizzards go thru Amarillo.
you're good at explaining this... even if you are just repeating exactly what you're told--you're good at this
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!
Cotton is the fabric of our lives!!!
We always knew that farmers grow the food we eat, but we don’t always give them credit for growing our clothes. Thank You.
Eli Whitney would be very impressed with this operation.
Your charisma and joie de vivre are absolutely intoxicating. Whoever gets to stay with you is charmed indeed.
No matter where I have ever went, I love factory tours.
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
"Laura Farms" is about the only thing good thing to come out of the Covid epidemic. Good job.
Thank You For what you do and for showing the world other aspects of Farming
Great story, great job!
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. 👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌🌹🌹🌹
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.
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 !
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.
Again, very impressive, I have never seen a cotton gin doing it’s thing. Thanks for taking us along it was truly awesome.
Absolutely interesting. Learning agriculture. Everyone needs this
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
Always so bright confident energetic,thanks
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.
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.
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...🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👆
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.
Thanks for bringing me along.
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
Laura is drippin’ in 🧊 🧊 🧊
Great video Laura, very informative, interesting and enjoyable, bye from San Antonio, TX 🤠👍
LOve this kind of videos love see more of this from farm to factory videos
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!!!!😎🇺🇸
I'm loving the road trips. Very cool. 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.
In your other videos we can many see what must be done for our eat. In this and the video before we saw many what must be done for our clothes. Yes and in all your videos, your enthusiasm is so wonderful and you realy transmit him to us. Thank you for your awesome videos Laura! :)
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.
Spectacular! Thank you!
Loved the whole cotton segment
Fantastic video. Farming on a scale that most countries can only dream of.
Well said and done !!! Nuff said.😀😀😀
This was so very cotton pickin cool to see and learn about. Thank you!
You and Grant are awesome I love you guys enjoy the videos me and my daughter ! 🤠🤠👍🏻
I went to Texas Tech and lived in Lubbock for 20+ years and never knew all of this! Fascinating to see the insides!
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.
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!
Fascinating to see all the processing of cotton - thanks for sharing
Loved both videos on the cotton harvest thank you
I'm here in Ottawa, Canada and this video was a real education. Thanks.
I love seeing this thanks for sharing
"Tarnation"! Haven't heard that outside the movies since I was a kid...
Fascinating, you are so good at explaining things. The things we take for granted.
I have lived in Texas for 50 years, and I had no idea Texas produced this much cotton. Thanks for educating me.
Texas is the largest producer in the country! Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, California, Alabama are the next biggest producers. Also grown in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona.....
@@tommathews3964 More good information, thanks for your reply.
@@DKanon You're welcome! It's an important crop for my home state of Alabama! We've grown it for 40 years, although I threaten to quit pretty much annually! :)
Love the show
When I was growing up here in Arkansas, their were cotton gins every where, this day and time you have to look for them.
I love your chipper good mornings!
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
Omgosh!!! Love all this information on your videos!!!! So addicted!!! 💫
This is my favorite thing to hear!!
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.
I was born and grew up in west Texas and always kinda took these things for granted. This adventure with you guys grounded my feet and gave me a new appreciation for our area farmers for how hard they work and what they do for the entire world!
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 for sharing Laura!
Thanks for the ride along.
Thank you Sis for the Fun .......
So much thanks for the learning of cotton..its incredible..good day..
Welcome to Texas!
I built a cotton Gin when I was in 5th grade 1973 for a history project.
Enjoyed the episode more than anything on big network TV. Thanks..
Coming from a family of cotton ginners I totally enjoyed this video!👍👍👍
You are an amazing educator. I learn from all of your videos.
Love your videos ❤️ and you form Scotland 🏴💙
You learn things so quick! You are quite amazing! Thanks!
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
I really enjoy your video's. I would suggest coming to the great state of Montana sometime and hitching a ride on a combine with a stripper header, or riding along with someone during sugar beet harvest. you could even follow the beets from the field through the processing plant in Billings, MT. Keep up the good work and blessings to you and your family.
Family and I were with Lummus and Acco forever, I ran a old 90 then the 158.
The pony tail is on point.
8:35 Laura: "These forklift drivers are no joke"
8:43 Forklift driver: hits cotton bale 😂
Laura, on behalf of us city- folk, THANK YOU for taking us along on your farming journeys and making every moment a teaching opportunity.
Hopefully my fellow Texans showed y’all some genuine hospitality.
And the fact that you just said “tarnation”… :)
Another great video. nice how you show us the agriculture in your country. greetings from germany .
I really learned how cotton is harvested & put through the gin. Thanks for such an educational video.
Thx, now i kow more about cotton. Have a nice weekend
It opens up new storey's on my farming experiences never seen anything like that,thank you for taking us with you,everything is bigger in Texas
Driven through West Texas countless times and have seen cotton in its various forms out in the field... growing, ready for harvest, harvested & bailed, etc... Knowing that Cotton is King, I've always wondered about the logistics of going from field to field jacket. Thank you very much for that quick, but thorough overview of the process. The fact of that one cotton gin being able to produce 20 tons of cotton per hour is mind boggling. The average person does not have a clue what all work is involved in bringing food to their table, let alone the clothes on their back. PLEASE keep this channel going and I look forward to your other vids!!!!
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
That's super cool to see . Things people have no idea about . Thanks for sharing
Great video and great presentation, WELCOME TO TEXAS.
thanks I learned something today watching this video. Of course I love your videos keep up the good work
Thanks Laura cotton lesson. I enjoyed learning how cotton done. I could tell Grant was enjoying himself too.
My family has a small farm in Childress Texas, we grew cotton when I was growing up. I have cousins who had a gin repair service, they worked like crazy during harvest. I had not seen a modern gin, your video was really neat to see some of the modern improvement they have made to the process. Keep up the good work!!!
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.
In school I learned that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. I have never seen one before. Thanks for showing us how they operate.
well ... this ain't nothing like the one Eli invented !!
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 for the farming and ginning of cotton. Very well explained. I learned something new and certainly won’t see clothes the same way. Cheers