COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 21_0_270_1webrh21

Workers adjust the controls of a modular feeder at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. The raw cotton is loaded into this machine and it breaks it up and prepares it for the ginning process. The facility gins cotton after it is harvested to remove the seeds and clean the cotton for shipment. About 80 percent of the cotton ginned at this facility is exported outside the U.S. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

Workers adjust the controls of a modular feeder at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. The raw cotton is loaded into this machine and it breaks it up and prepares it for the ginning process. The facility gins cotton after it is harvested to remove the seeds and clean the cotton for shipment. About 80 percent of the cotton ginned at this facility is exported outside the U.S. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)