Afara claims its cotton detection rate is fully 99.8 percent, with picking efficiency currently at 71% (of the “leftover” 20%), with a target picking efficiency rate at more than 90%.

By the middle of December the "cotton-picking season" is generally brought to a close, but on account of the great scarcity of labor throughout the cotton-producing States, Christmas will find a ...

Southeast Texas—Hi y’all. We’re picking cotton. All four machines are running. This is a fantastic day. The field we are currently harvesting is picking fairly poor. It’s yielding about 0. ...

which is why the cotton plant’s fruit is called seed cotton. Picking cotton manually, as is still done in some major producing countries, is a meticulous task. Workers have to bend to reach the ...