There are a bunch of visual indicators of Fall in South Georgia.
Harvest of various crops, especially cotton, is one of the most visible. The cotton harvest pictures were made by a neighbor. His son, one of my former students, and one of the smartest kids I ever taught, is actually the farmer. He is working land that has been in his mother's family for at least three generations. It has been a long time since my family grew cotton, but I would guess that cotton will yield more than two bales per acre.
The harvest equipment is not state of the art, but is much better than what was used 20-30 years ago. The cotton is dumped from the picker into a "module builder," which compacts it, and forms it into a module that will later be picked up by a truck and hauled to a gin. A new, state of the art JD combine, would push the $1 million mark.
Anyhow, Jon Davis and his dad, who recently retired from Ga Farm Bureau, are wide open in the cotton patch right now. I don't know exactly what his acreage is. Probably 300+ acres.
Harvest of various crops, especially cotton, is one of the most visible. The cotton harvest pictures were made by a neighbor. His son, one of my former students, and one of the smartest kids I ever taught, is actually the farmer. He is working land that has been in his mother's family for at least three generations. It has been a long time since my family grew cotton, but I would guess that cotton will yield more than two bales per acre.
The harvest equipment is not state of the art, but is much better than what was used 20-30 years ago. The cotton is dumped from the picker into a "module builder," which compacts it, and forms it into a module that will later be picked up by a truck and hauled to a gin. A new, state of the art JD combine, would push the $1 million mark.
Anyhow, Jon Davis and his dad, who recently retired from Ga Farm Bureau, are wide open in the cotton patch right now. I don't know exactly what his acreage is. Probably 300+ acres.
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