Harvest time …

  Once peanuts are dug from the ground, they are  left in the field to dry before being combined (peanuts separated from the dug plant), graded, and prepared for market. Optimal conditions are when the peanuts sun-dry for a few days on top of the ground. This reduces the need and duration of mechanical drying with forced hot air ($$ propane $$). A sun drenched field also creates dust storms which farmers had to endure before there were…

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Cotton mom …

Cotton  Mom ... a still from our documentary-in-progress, Cotton Tale .... Cotton Tale is a century family, farm, and industry documentary headlining the changes in cotton production in the last 60 years.  The narrative vehicle for this documentary is the voice of the “last-one-standing” patriarch of a four generation farm family living in the Four Hole Swamp area of low-country South Carolina.  Family members and community will testify to the  family’s farming heritage which is characterized by deep-seated values of…

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Cotton wagon ….

Only sixty years ago, cotton from the field was pulled to the gin in a wagon with wire screen sides.  Today, the "boll buggy" dumps its load into a "module builder" which presses out a loaf of cotton that is hauled to the gin by a 16 wheeler.  An image from our  documentary project, "Cotton Tale."   Will Wofford mans the module builder and Josh Johnson pulls the load with the Houck Farms John Deere 7810.

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