COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 23_0_272_1webrh23

Operator James Grooms is reflected in the mirror of a cotton picker at Baxley & Baxley Farms in Minturn, South Carolina November 24, 2012. The third generation farm, located along South Carolina's cotton corridor, harvested just under 1100 acres of cotton this season. The Baxley family plants several crops but cotton is the cash crop and the most profitable. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

Operator James Grooms is reflected in the mirror of a cotton picker at Baxley & Baxley Farms in Minturn, South Carolina November 24, 2012. The third generation farm, located along South Carolina's cotton corridor, harvested just under 1100 acres of cotton this season. The Baxley family plants several crops but cotton is the cash crop and the most profitable. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)