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John Deere has unveiled its latest cotton harvesting equipment designed to help improve growers’ efficiency and productivity.
Christopher Murray is the cotton product manager for John Deere. “On the cotton picker, we now make larger and denser round modules, so we help reduce wrap costs for those customers,” he says. “They’re not only more productive, but we’re helping lower the cost of harvest for them. On our cotton strippers, we now have our new field cleaners that remove plant materials from the seed cotton.”
Because cotton is fully traced through its supply chain, he tells Brownfield they worked closely with growers on John Deere’s Harvest Identification Cotton Pro technology.
