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.

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Cotton Australia’s general manager Michael Murray said the industry was expecting total production of 5.5 million bales and there was a small amount of picking to go. The estimate has been ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 30.-President Roosevelt has consented to touch the button that will start the press to working which will compress the first bale of cotton ever compressed on water ...

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 ...

Seddon's Aspen Farm manager Tahi Doonan, left, Agpac representative James Getty, farm contractor Robbie Barnes and wrapping operator Oli Forsyth with a bale using the recycled wrap.Supplied ...

He launched Jimmy’s Custom Wrapping in 2021 after purchasing a Vermeer bale wrapper, offering baleage services to local producers. His second business, Kneisler Cattle Service, began in 2020 and ...

Oldest son has been very busy wrapping hay bales again. It’s that time of year. You may remember from some of my stories last year that we have a large bale-wrapping machine, and Alex is the ...

H Monkman & Sons, based in Malton, North Yorkshire offers services including spraying, fertiliser spreading, Avadex application, baling and wrapping ... Big Bale Services also provides excellent ...

Contractor Will Monkman, who farms 95ha and contract farms another 80ha, reveals the contents of his machinery shed in the latest in our series.. H Monkman & Sons, based in Malton, North Yorkshire ...