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Our robot harvests cotton by reaching out and plucking it, like a lizard’s tongue snatching flies
One issue is prolonged fiber exposure. Cotton bolls don’t all mature at the same time; the first open bolls in a field may wait for up to 50 days to be picked, until more bolls around them ripen.
EurekAlert!2y
Cotton Plant with Bolls (IMAGE)
This is an example of boll distribution in a cotton plant population during the season. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!
AgWeb1y
East-Central Texas Farmer Blown Away By Cotton Yields This Year
As he entered the final rows on the edge of the field, the cotton plants were laying over from all the weight of the plant packed with bolls. “As we were running through the fields picking this ...
UMass Lowell4y
Cotton Tales
Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...