COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 25_0_274_1webrh25

A compressor is covered by a heavy coat of cotton dust at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. The facility gins cotton after it is harvested to remove the seeds and packages it for shipment. About 80 percent of the cotton ginned at this facility is exported outside the United States. Cotton is moved and sorted through the ginning process by air and gravity. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

A compressor is covered by a heavy coat of cotton dust at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. The facility gins cotton after it is harvested to remove the seeds and packages it for shipment. About 80 percent of the cotton ginned at this facility is exported outside the United States. Cotton is moved and sorted through the ginning process by air and gravity. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)