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Itta Bena Mississippi | As a farmer and ginner, there's no comparison in the 2. The cotton saved alone will pay for the wrap. Conventional modules leave cotton when the truck picks it up in the field and again at the gin yard. I won't even go into the cost of a builder crew.
It's also cheaper to gin. They're tighter and less moisture absorbent than a conventional module, particularly on that has already been moved by a truck, so it requires less propane to dry.
Conventional module tarps do not last forever either. They leak over time, module crews snatch the drawstrings out, and they blow off in storms and get wet(ask me about Hurricane Katrina/Rita).
Then there's the hauling factor. We use both module trucks and drop decks. You get over 20 miles from the gin, the cost between running a module truck and a semi is prohibitive. Plus, the module truck has but one purpose and is expensive.
I could go on all night, but just crawled off a picker and am tired.
I picked a lot of cotton with basket pickers and truly hated to see my 9996s go, but I've been finished with my own cotton for a while and have run several thousand acres of gin customer cotton through my balers. We never could've done this with basket pickers.
Tom.
Oh and John, we bale the plastic in an old press and Delta plastics buys it. There's been a heap of gins shut down in the mid south and we're still here. Ever seen a foot of rotten cotton in a module? I've seen a whole lot more of that than I've ever seen sprouted cotton in bales and I'm in the heart of the humid Delta.
Edited by TJG in MS 10/7/2016 22:11
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cotton transportation and cover misleading comparison by progressive farmer
