A cotton-pickin' good time!

Irrigation explanation. The cotton field has been picked, maybe twice by the big picking machines, but not stripped...if it was stripped it would have not cotton and no leaves on it.

These are called cotton modules. It is basically a block of compacted cotton. The truck is dropping it off at the cotton gin.

These are the different stages the cotton goes through. The far right still has sticks and pod pieces in it, how it is after it goes through the picker. The second from the right one is after it has been through one part of the cotton gin and the cleanest pile is after it has been all the way through the cotton gin. The two piles on the left are the seeds, one with no cleaning, and the other with just some cotton lint on it. The cotton seeds are made into cotton seed oil at another plant.

The cotton gin. The ginned cotton goes right into the trucks.

We took a bus to all these different places in Altus and a State Senator from Oklahoma, Mike Schulz, was our tour guide and also is a farmer living in Humphreys, a town adjacent to Altus.