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In the Field
When farmers plowed their cotton fields with mules or horses or oxen, that was an improvement over tilling by hand or planting with a stick. They probably didn’t even imagine that some day huge mechanized tractors would automatically guide themselves with precision through the fields. Picking cotton was likewise arduous, even brutal work in the past: “The times I hated most was pickin' cotton when the frost was on the bolls. My hands git sore and crack open and bleed." Generations of slaves, sharecroppers, and family farmers dreamed of never having to pick cotton again, but probably couldn’t have imagined an eight-row GPS-guided cotton picker with an on-board module builder. These and other innovations have changed cotton production into a high-tech enterprise.
