COTTON : FROM HARVEST TO GIN: 8_0_257_1webrh08

Gin operator Robert Espino of Weslaco, Texas, watches the controls of a cotton gin 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, watches the controls of a cotton gin 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)