Have you seen a cotton field? (family, 80's, area, Huntsville)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

I live in an area where cotton was once the cash crop (now, corn and soybeans have taken over). I have seen many cotton fields, cropdusters spraying chemicals over them, and cotton pickers (the mechanical kind) working in the fields. How about you?

[plmokn]

Yes, in southern TN, just north of Huntsville, AL. Visited there for a pumpkin patch thing in the fall. Saw those big John Deere machines picking cotton.

[Nomadicus]

Plenty of them in the AR delta. And many of the trailers hauling the cotton down the roads. Cotton was a big cash crop in the late 70's early 80's because of the lack of need for manual labor. I don't know what is grown there today. Rice may have taken over.

[Dirt Grinder]

I live in The Cotton Belt so I see more than my fair share of cotton fields. I really don't like living near cotton fields because I don't care for the odor of the defoliant they spray on the crop at the end of the season.

[_redbird_]

As a child, my whole family would go out and chop cotton. I was too young and was allowed to run up and down the rows of cotton.

My Dad remembers picking cotton. They have him a big bag. This was in southwestern Oklahoma.

[MoNative34]

Saw a field in Shiloh, TN many years ago.

[Ketabcha]

Yes, I have. My grandmother picked cotton on their farm when she was a young girl in East Texas.

[Bayarea4]

I remember seeing a cotton field while traveling through the the Bakersfield area in the 1950s when I was a little girl.

[laughing traveler]

I have a vague memory of a cotton field. Maybe I have only seen photos.

[wit-nit]

Cotton is one of AZ cash crops. Seem them all the time.