Overall, costs per bale have dropped $1.50. “We’ve increased throughput of the cotton handling system ... and that helps with wrapping economy to remove plant material,” Murray notes.

With the slightest breeze, the raw, fluffy cotton seems to dance, tethered precariously to its nearly dried-up boll. Then a loud, lumbering harvester, driven by Armando Burruel, tears it from its ...

“We had tractor and trailer rides, sheep shearing, bee keeping, a farrier demo, large animal vets with interactive displays, animal feeds, chicks and ducklings, ewes and lambs, cows and calves, ...