When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary ...

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Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly ...

This new field robot developed by a Turkish cotton farmer is fully electric, fully autonomous, and could harvest as much as 20% more cotton from existing farms. The Afara’s inventor claims that ...