COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 22_0_271_1webrh22

Gin operator Robert Espino of Weslaco, Texas, checks on the ginning process at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. Espino, like many of the workers at the gin, are skilled migrant workers who follow the cotton crop as it is harvested throughout the Southern United States. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

Gin operator Robert Espino of Weslaco, Texas, checks on the ginning process at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. Espino, like many of the workers at the gin, are skilled migrant workers who follow the cotton crop as it is harvested throughout the Southern United States. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)