COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 26_0_275_1webrh26

Modular feeder operator Romeo Rosales of Dallas, Texas, prepares cotton for the cotton gin at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. Rosales, 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)

Modular feeder operator Romeo Rosales of Dallas, Texas, prepares cotton for the cotton gin at the Minturn Cotton Company in Minturn, South Carolina November 27, 2012. Rosales, 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)