Stripping In West Texas
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- What an amazing day!! We are having such a fun time learn all about the ways cotton is harvested. Thank you so much to everyone at EcoDrip Irrigation for making this experience possible. Stay tuned for the next video where I visit a cotton gin and a compress!
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In a world that takes so many products and conveniences for granted, it is fantastic to see the real people that work so hard to put food on our tables and clothes on our backs. Thank you Laura and Grant. I appreciate your videos.
i grew up on a cotton farm in central Texas in the really old days before modules. Two row stripper behind a John Deere 70 with a cotton trailer behind that. Towed the trailers to the gin behind a pick up where the bowls and seeds were removed. Love your videos. Thank you for brightening my day.
Pretty much the same here, except we had pickers in Missouri. I've pulled a lot of cotton trailers in my time. I did run a module builder once when I was on vacation from my job.
As someone who lived in Lubbock for 6 years and did my Master's Thesis on the cotton ginning industry in the Southern High Plains, this video hits home. I love it. Keep up the content.
I had no idea what the modern way of harvesting cotton is. This is really cool!
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Laura, this is an ingenious title to use
Yep, the title sure grabs attention!
Laura is creative like that! :-)
Yes, accompanied with 'everything is bigger in Texas' 🤣
Gotta master the algorithm😏
I was thinkin’ the same thing. I’m guessing she knew that though.
The thing I like the best about Laura Farms and channels like hers, is that it shows these clueless metropolitan city dwellers who are so wrapped up in their city life world, WHERE STUFF ACUTALLY COMES FROM and HOW IT GETS TO THEIR LOCAL STORE!!!!
Me and my wife think you two are the cutest couple on TH-cam and we love your videos keep up the good work
Thanks for sharing. I worked at John Deere Des Moines Works where cotton harvesting equipment is designed and built over 20 years ago. I was fortunate to visit the Lubbock area for introduction of the 7450 Stripper, the predecessor to the 7455. I was directly involved with the development of the stripper row unit as you saw on those machines as well as the cleaner. The move to the round bales from the modules was a big transformation for the whole industry and reduced the labor inputs. Enjoy your visit!
My mother bought all the parts for years for the Ankeny works. Retired after 34 years and then did 4-5 more as a contractor up until last week.
Definitely impressive machines.
I live in Lubbock.
Reduced labor inputs, while also driving up the price of a picker/stripper 40%.
@@jeepsandfarming it's almost just as much labor, someone has to mow trails to where the bales don't have to be driven thru very much standing stalks at all or the tarp rips on bottom and you have 4 bales of cotton exploded in your field . Then someone has to go get every bale and set them in rows of 4 so a truck can get to them wo getting stuck. With a price tag of 880,000 you prolly won't have it paid off before you start having to send it to Deere for a 100,000 a yr shop, labor, parts bill so that it will pick.
@@chadsmith14 Having grown up with 2-row pickers, I can't imagine having to sit out wet ground due to the weight and also dealing with getting around. I've seen a 4-row get buried, as well as have trouble clearing gaps and creek crossings.
You are a beautiful couple and a terrific addition to You Tube or any public education system. Laura is nominated for Farming Princess of the Decade!!! Great videos...
I grew up on a cotton farm in Mississippi, but I live in South Dakota now, and I always I miss cotton pickin' season. When I was a kid, module builders weren't a thing. Farmers had to haul their cotton to the gin in wagons. It was unpacked and loose. The sides of the roads in October and November would look like it had snowed from all the cotton that flew out of the wagons. Dad would let us bury ourselves in the cotton and then ride to the gin in the wagon with nothing but our heads sticking above the cotton. The modules and bales have killed that particular joyful childhood experience, but cotton pickin' remains my favorite part of the ag calendar when I'm back home in Mississippi.
I have driven so many times on Texas highways on cross country drives from Flagstaff, Arizona to Alabama through Texas cotton farm country. My favorite visions are cotton drifts along the highway looking like snow lining the roadway from the strong Texas winds during harvest season. I have stopped to feel the fluff too. Thank you for educating me on the harvesting of cotton. You are teaching me so much about farming.
My Grandparents owned 3 cotton gins outside of Earth which 65 miles northwest of Lubbock. This is so cool to see!
I’m from Lubbock and used to tarp modules after school during harvest! (The old method they showed) so cool to see it on your channel
Never seen anything like being done before, amazing to see where the cotton comes from👍🇮🇪
My bother in law had a cotton farm just outside of Lubboch till the water table dropped back in the 80's. Cotton farming has changed a lot over the years. It was wonderful growing up around the farm!
That’s part of my old stomping grounds. I’ve worked in almost every aspect of cotton farming. But my first memory of cotton farming was when I was a little boy stomping cotton in old cotton trailers. All the farmers kids and hired hands kids doing are part to get the cotton to gin. We thought it was just play time for us. Thank you for taking me down memory lane.
Watched your interview and I can't say how refreshing it is like to listen like to a young like woman like talk for like an hour and like not use like the word LIKE a million times! I love watching your videos, your intelligence and upbringing shine through all the mud and the muck. Thank you for continuing the honored tradition of the American farmer and being a great example for young women everywhere. God bless you and your family and God bless America!
me being crimped with arthritis in my bed . such film's Mack my day i would never get to see Taxes in that light thank you Les England . XXX 💖💖. what a sun set . X
Never stop learning as a farmer .. so very true!
For many, many years, I worked on a neighbor's farm. Probably the best time of my life. The farmer I worked for was Merit Bishop, an elderly gentleman, who I truly admired. He was always teaching me things about farming.
One morning, I was cleaning out the chicken barn. I remember this like it happened yesterday though it was about 55 years ago. The barn had windows covered in chicken wire and the early morning sun was just blasting through the windows. I had been working for maybe an hour or more when Merit came to the barn and asked me how things were going. I told him everything was going great and that I had already spread one load of manure in the upper pasture. He then asked me to stop for a minute and had me come over to a window where he was standing. He pointed to some chicken droppings on the window sill. Now, if you have ever seen chicken droppings, it is white with a green spot in the center. And like I said before, Merit was also teaching me about something. He then asked me if I knew what the green spot in the dropping was. Of course, I didn't know and told him I was uncertain but surmised it was some type pf protein. His response was priceless ...
"Why that's chicken sh#t. How long have you been working here?"
Wonderful memories.
Always the little things😂
I was milking cows one evening and one cow flicked shit into my mouth and never relised it... i thoutht it was milk because it tasted like milk so i swallowed it 😂
Later on i found out it wasnt milk and that their shit tastes like milk... not sure if its all cows but yea
Well, to someone who grew up on a cotton farm you are just precious. Little cotton trees; so cute. The 2021 model released this fall of the cotton picker is $1.2 million. Pickers have spindles instead of brushes. The little town I grew up in (Inverness, MS), at one time, had the largest cotton gin in the world, Duncan Gin. When I was growing up there were 4 cotton gins in the city limits of Inverness. That is some wide open country around Lubbock. I checked cotton for insects around Lubbock for two summers when I was in college. Enjoyed the video, God Bless.
Checking in from Middle Georgia, yep they grow a few acres of cotton. However, I grew up near Millington in West Tennessee cotton country. Many thanks to my my grandfather, dad and Mr. Sidney and Ronnie Ray for the opportunity to develop an absolutely invaluable work ethic and opportunity to experience things that have stuck with me to this day. The Ray’s owned Producer’s Gin in millington and we hauled bales and cotton seed into Memphis and sometimes the big city Covington.
Now Laura Farms needs to come to Ga, and watch how they harvest peanuts, Vadalia onions and pecans.
A lot of people have no clue....but a spark can smolter in a cotton bale for weeks building up heat and pressure. Watching a cotton bale explode is a trip.
On a side note...watching a cotton buyer pick out his cotton make you want to shoot them in the knee cap.
They wander all over the warehouse going "let me have those 4 bales there, and those 3 over there and that 1 in the back corner"
You just want to scream "would you just stuff 88 bales in my wagon, please"
Very cool, nice channel and very informative. I bought two fields with cotton myself today. I will lease a cotton harvester when it's ready to be harvest. Luckily you can skip months in FS22, so shouldn't take to long 😂
Laura, I have an uncle that is a cotton farmer. I actually have ran that machine that compresses the cotton down. Plus helped my uncle run the bull buggy and the stripper, at times. So overall I really liked how you followed along the cotton harvest from the field to the gin. If I had known you were in New Home, Tx. We could had possibly met out there. Anyway, I love your videos! Keep up the great work.
Yehey! After 3 weeks I have watched all of your videos. I have throughly enjoyed them all. Keep up the great work Laura!
Kind regards from Germany. I'm thrilled I haven't seen anything like this before. That was a very nice contribution and the sunset was absolutely amazing.
Thx
This vid appeared in my feed. I never would've searched for it. I drive a semi, but I think all this machinery is very cool. Love the content. Thanks ! ! !
I last drove a Cotton Picker 40 years ago. The innovation that has taken place since then has been tremendous. There were farms still using single row pickers back in the early 80's. Now these 8 row machines do the work of several machines in just one pass. Amazing!
So glad you came to visit my world I did that for 43 years saw lots of those sun sets from a stripper cab
Great videos. I have learned a lot watching these videos. You are a great teacher too. Thanks for taking us with you. I ordered a tee shirt for your Grandparents.
I love that we still produce cotton here in Texas. I love how the bails pop out the back like it’s laying eggs. 😆Thanks for sharing this interesting piece of technology.
First time I've ever seen cotton harvested. Definitely never too old to learn something new. Thanks for sharing that was really interesting.
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That's a cotton stripper shown in the majority of the vid. Different than the picker we use. In simple terms, strippers take the whole plant, unripe boles and all, pickers pick, with a series of spindles (think fingers) in columns, and leave the plant, so unripe boles can be harvested later (if you have the time and weather for it). It's a fascinating crop to grow and harvest! Glad she showed module building and the newer tech baling methods. I don't miss modules!
I have seen it when it was all human labor; I’m that old!
@@putlerkaputt9201 It wasn't cotton farming, It was Soviet agricultural practice. Demanding far more from the land than it could produce instead of allowing farmers to decide what and how much to plant
Love it,my great grandpa said it was super easy in his day, almost like they didn't even work. I guess this way is okay too. Great video.
No Cotton grown here in Scotland, so it made this video all the more fascinating! Thank you Laura & Grant!
Welcome to Texas Laura & Grant where the sunsets are gorgeous and the stars are big and bright!
A couple of years back I worked for a company that produced agro chemicals, and sold the chemicals and seeds to farmers. But what I find most interesting in farming is the machines. I like big complex things.
I have helped a buddy of mine during cotton season and ran those module builders. I used to love helping pick cotton. He would pick till the dew fell and we have ran till 1:00 or 2:00 clock in the morning.
Thanks for this!! I was a irrigated farmer in eastern Montana until 50 , pretty sure I was born with a siphon tube in my hand. I really appreciate all the videos you do, I just found Laura Farms a couple weeks ago. I've been out of farming a few years but it is still very much in my blood ,along with green paint. It makes me happy to see younger people involved in agriculture , that is to uncommon. A few years ago I had an opportunity to tour the Imperial Valley in southern California, basically a 400,000 acre irrigation project. I had a pretty good idea what was there, but when I got there , I was blown away , amazing. That would be a good one for you to visit. But any way I'll keep watching, you guys are great, you could easily be in prime time, I mean it. Thanks
Hey, that was fun to watch. In the Netherlands we had some huge cotton industrie area's, at least for Dutch understandings, in the first half of the previous century. We didn't have the cotton farming but the cotton weaving mills or cotton gin as you say I think. Nice to see you both exploring other ways of farming and letting us join your trip so we all can learn from it. It should be shown at city-schools to get more understanding about where all there products come from. Looking forward to what comes ahead.
My dad went to preaching school at Sunset school of preaching in Lubbock Texas when we were little. We were from the Iowa farm and enjoyed watching planting to harvesting cotton. We brought seed back to plant in the garden, it was fun to watch grow. Grandma and mom made crafts with what grew. How wonderful you and Grant can take break see the country
Does your dad still preach?
@@kennybayles6914 no my dad passed away 7 years ago after a 12 year battle of cancer. He preached the gospel for 45 years. Thank you kindly for asking. We are church of Christ non instrumental. Mother passed this June with unexplained respiratory system failure non covid related.
On the back of many cars / trucks " No Farmers - No Food . " We need you and your good family Laura . Sell Shirts and Baseball hats with your logo .
My grand mother and grand father came to Louisiana following the cotton harvest. My grand mother said she was pulling a 9 foot cotton sack. Back then all cotton harvesting was done by hand.
This was a very cool video I’ve never seen cotton harvested, but I’ve seen it growing and wondered how they turn all that into real cotton very cool
My Dad used to say to me when I was growing up, "Put your cotton pickin' shoes on, let's GO!!!" as I was getting up for school! LOL! ✌😂
You're spirit makes me happy.
Laura, I'm about 10 miles from you in Lubbock, Texas. My dad farmed and went to college at Texas Tech there in Lubbock. Back in the 1940s cotton was 6-8 feet tall. You see how small the hybrids are now 80 years later. Three people now harvest what 20 persons per crew did back then. Glad you two are having a good time.
Native Lubbockite here, I recognized the fields the moment I started the video. It is awesome to see my favorite farming/agriculture content creator in my home town! Made my week!
And... yeah :) Lubbock has the greatest sunset!
I came across your channel because I was interested in how other people farm. I'm fascinated with corn and soybean production and then to see you filming cotton production was full circle.
My family has farmed cotton for just short of 100 years about 40 miles south of where you were filming. You spoke of the New way to strip cotton (bales) and the Old way (modules) but you didn't see the Old, Old way with cotton trailers (30' flatbed trailer with metal frame and chicken wire walls). When I saw you jumping in the cotton it brought back memories of the young kids climbing in the trailers to tramp down the loose cotton. Except the cotton was real loose and it was easy (and dangerous) to get lost under the cotton. Enjoyed your video.
Very cool yall came to Lubbock! My hometown and still live here!
You & Grant are such dorks! Love watching you both Geek out over new farming methods
That was really great I have never seen before thank you can't wait for next one and for sharing and your time was really great to see.
Laura and Grant have lots of fans in West Texas!! Come back anytime!! Love the Content!!
I live in Lubbock!!! So proud of our cotton farmers and thrilled its a great year!! I’ll happily take my allergy medicine till stripping is done! We used to have bumper stickers that still express how I feel about my home of 65 years. It was …………Lucky Me I Live in Lubbock!!!!❤️
I remember playing in my grandfathers cotton trailers, which were full of cotton and had to be pulled to the cotton gin by truck in those days (1970-1975). Those were some fun times and will not be forgotten!
Another great video from the foxiest farmer, Laura.
Welcome to Texas! Just made the drive from Washington State back home to Texas last 3 days, arrived late last night....whew! Good to be home!
I love farming you are a talented farmer all the best🌸🌼🌷🌸🌼🌷🌸🌼🌷🌸🌼🌷💖🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
West Texas is fantastic. Glad you shared.
This was so educational to watch. I grew up in Texas, but was never fortunate enough to witness cotton harvest. I’m sure this experience was a ton of fun. Thank you for bringing it up close and personal for the ready of us. Love ❤️ you, Grammy
My mom use to tell me back in the 30's that they farmed and picked cotton by hand in Northern California and at the end of the day there hands were trashed from the cotton heads, Today's cotton looks amazing and a lot less labor intensive!!
My daddy’s family picked cotton by hand for many years-the younger pickers, children less than 12 years of age, picked half a sack per day while the older picked a full sack per day (six days each week). I have my great grandfather’s scale that was used to weigh the sacks when the pickers came out of the fields. Most family members were delighted when they were able to purchase a equipment to automate picking and processing. It’s fun to watch you explore because I am learning new things and relearning thing I have forgotten--keep on learning and thanks for taking us on your road trip!
Welcome to our neck of the flat lands. Glad it wasn't blowing while you were out there. We normally don't even consider it "breezy" until it gets over 40mph sustained. Also notice the soil... it shouldn't take much to see why we are in the dust bowl even to this day. Hope you enjoy your stay. If you get the chance to come north toward Amarillo, stop by the Palo Duro Canyon... well worth the visit.
Well done video y’all! Learned so much about cotton farming. Really well done. Felt like I was right there learning right along with you. Y’all have a gift for that. Glad you got to visit Texas.
I love it here In Texas ❤️ just miss my family back home
🎼🎵 We were walking in HIGH Cotton, ole times that are not forgotten. Those fertile fields were never far away🎵
I am always amazed at the amount cotton left behind in the field. I have driven past stripped fields in several different states and they are always the same.
Great videos…Hi from Craig in NC! My grandfather was a cotton farmer, he picked cotton with hands 🙌 it’s great to see how much change has happened with farming cotton
Thanks for all the great camera angles and content. Not easy n I appreciate your skill and efforts. Wonderful
Love road.trips. I’ve learned a lot. Thanks for taking us along and look forward to you and Grant at the Cotton Gin.
You are in my old stomping grounds Laura. My grandfather was a west Texas cotton farmer. Smell that cotton after it is cleaned at the gin.
That is cool to see and watch. Thank you and hats off to all farmers
This is a super-interesting video. Thanks for sharing your look at cotton farming. And this raises my admiration for farmers such as you and Grant. Always working hard, and eager to learn something new. Using your vacation time to explore something different than you're used to in Nebraska says a lot about your work ethic. Great job!
Very interesting. We farmed 100 acres several hundred miles to the south. My dad farmed with mules and manual labor. Four bales was a good year, but there was always food on the table, shoes in the fall, and blue jeans from J C Penney.
Sweet! Definitely learned something
OMG!!! I LIVE IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS! Lubbock county is the worlds largest cotton producing county in the world! I am so pumped you came here! I really enjoy your videos and am a big fan of your channel. WELCOME TO LUBBOCK! Which gin will you guys be visiting? It would be awesome to see you guys in person!
Wish I had known y’all were in Texas, you could cross over in Louisiana and go to my friends Pecan Plantation Farm in Natchitoches, the oldest city in Louisiana dating all the way back to the Louisiana Purchase days, they have land titles and documents written in French that you can see at the courthouse. You could swing south and visit the Sugar Cane Plantations and see how it is farmed and processed, then the rice farms and how they flood the fields and raise crawfish in them after the harvest, they attract a lot of ducks and geese and some farmers lease out duck and goose blinds for hunting. You could visit New Orleans and see some real old plantations dating back to the 1800’s, some wild city life, and go on a swamp tour and see the alligators and even go to a alligator farm and see how they raise them. There are even a few catfish farms you could see too. I love the cotton video. Cotton tee shirts, socks, pants, towels, wash cloths. bed sheets, and pillow cases are the best. Some city slicker wants to know when are you going to a polyester farm. LOL 😂. Y’all be safe and have fun. Grant, I love that fine car you got, traveling in style and horsepower to spare. 👏👍🙏😎✌️
Then come down and see how sugar cane is "combined"
My Home town! Glad you were able to visit
Wow! I've seen quite a bit of cotton here in Texas during my life, but those plants being harvested were heavy full. That's the best cotton crop I think I've ever seen. I grew up just a few blocks from a cotton gin. My best friend's dad & family owned it, so we were there a lot. looking forward to the next video of the gin.
Impressive to see the advances in harvest technique and how clean the plants are left. Awesome video! Welcome to Texas Grant & Laura! Hope you enjoy the time learning cotton farming while here!
Texas has some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world. I live in the Northern panhandle of Texas and still amazed sometimes even after 40 years.
I've never been so interested in a farming video since this one. Laura, you are such a sweet person. I really like your energy. Keep up the great videos. Awesome filming and sound.
Great road trip! Thatnks for sharing your experience! Love it 😍
My mother grew up in southern Mississippi. She told stories of picking cotton by hand. The pods they come out of when dry were very sharp and of not careful she would cut her fingers. Also there was a caterpillar that was on the cotton was a stinging type that she had to watch out for or her hands ended up stung swollen and cut up
Am honestly impressed with your channel.You have a gift sharing your difficult profession with us all.Rock on
Young Lady, as a native Texan I appreciate your comments on the gorgeousness of Texas, but you did nothing less than improve it with your mere presence. I appreciate you and Grant's trip down and your sharing the West Texas Cotton Crop to TH-cam. Maybe you can visit the other West Texas crop, Texas oil rigs, while you're here? Cheers from North Texas, 300+ miles east, and still in Texas!
Thanks for your video from my home state. The local farming for me only has a small resemblance to the high plains of Texas but the goal to produce agricultural commodities is the same.
This is one of the coolest videos that you have done ! Thanks you !
It’s so weird and cool how cotton grows like that. I don’t understand how but it’s pretty amazing.
Great video, I’m Les with JLM Trucking we move the finished bales form a gin in Arkansas to Memphis area .
My cousin manages a gin in Monette AR. I grew up on my family's cotton farm in SE Missouri.
So glad you two came here to Texas to visit. You are in the heart of cotton country. Please come back again soon. We have many other crops for you to learn about: citrus, potatoes, cucumbers, sheep, .....
We love this time of year in West Texas. Thanks for making the video and hello from Lubbock!
Welcome to Texas. Hope you have a great time.
My family and I worked in Textiles in SC. It's nice to finally meet a cotton farmer.
Ok.. I'm not a farmer and did not know much about what it takes to run and operate a farm. Laura, your videos are fantastic (for many reasons). I do like to learn many things. However, sometimes educational productions are so geared to non-neuro-divergent brains, that sticking with them is difficult. You, however, have the right approach. Like you said in one of your prior videos; that you just wanted to show what it is like, day to day. Your narration and explaining as you go is perfect. I get to see wonderful machines and complex systems in use! Up close, so-to-speak. I admit, I have an interest in the lifestyle. But, the closest to operating and learning about the tools and machines in use would be a farming simulator! :) I've watched many (not all) of your productions and some time ago I had subscribed. I look forward to your posts. Believe it or not, they are calming and keep my attention. You and Grant, congratulations (Marriage) and I truly pray for your continued success. Thank you for being you!
Loved it Laura, very interesting,I’ve never seen cotton harvesting before. 👍
Very cool... Thanks for sharing ... Looking forward to seeing the cotton processed in the Gin.
Neat. My wife's family has some farm land out east of Lubbock that grows lots of cotton. I've visited it, but never really seen the cotton farming up close. This is awesome.
These are very informative and interesting videos. We have lots of cotton here in Eastern NC . The cotton gins are fascinating.
First time I actually saw cotton in the field was in Arkansas. Had to pull over and look at it!
I worked in West Texas about 15 years ago and learned a lot about the cotton industry. I was surprised that the boll weevil is still a big thing.
One thing I’ve found all over the country is farmers love to show what they do. I casually mentioned once that being from the East coast, I’d never been in a combine. That got me an invitation for a ride and led to my harvesting hundreds of acres of corn on my own! Farmers are the nicest people.
You are so lucky to live in Nebraska and farm. It’s a quality of life that is rapidly disappearing in the United States.
Its the government and the vegan protestors in ireland thats making shit of it all
But theres atleast 30 lads in my year that would be farmers or would help on a farm but other years its more like 3-5 kids
That was incredibly interesting! Looks like you two had a blast! I live in a little town in central Massachusetts where Eli Whitney Jr. went to Leicester Academy (later known as Becker College) in preparation for Yale University. Eli Whitney Jr. of course is the inventor of the COTTON GIN!!! Every history teacher in town always told us how the inventor of the cotton gin went to school in our town. I guess it's our one claim to fame.😂 That's all that I know about cotton farming. 😁