COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 29_0_278_1webrh29

Bagger Chon Thompson prepares to bag a bail of cotton 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. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

Bagger Chon Thompson prepares to bag a bail of cotton 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. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)