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Lorenzo, tx | I agree I think the experiment stations tests have been highly biased. The only the thing there test showed was if you dropped a picker into a system designed for a stripper at ever turn. I think the pickers weren't in peak shape and only compared pound take. To the gin. To pick and make it make you money is a complete system. Variety choices can have a big impact on it, as well as pix would we be as anxious to get that last dose of pix on if we knew it would be picked? Defoliation costs are significantly cheaper as well as the added benefit of getting the crop out as a couple weeks sooner. The ginning cost are a lot lower not to mention the better grades. For it to be a fair test ever part of the system needs to be examined. The experiment stations test looks at none of that. I did a test a couple years ago where I stripped and picked in the same field and came out dollars ahead. Who cares if you left 20 lbs in the field if you came out $35 an acre ahead to have it picked? Ive been considering the same thing you have I think in a picker makes a lot of sense for our irrigated cotton.
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Cotton stripper versus cotton picker
