1. Estimating cotton yield and net revenue
Understanding the Variables involved in Growing Cotton

2. Cotton Flower
The bud leaves are in the shape of a triangle.

3. Closed Cotton Boll
Most Cotton Bolls come in four sections, but some have 5.

4. Boll-Round fluffy clumps that cotton grows in

5. Open cotton boll
Once the boll is dried by the sun, it splits open and reveals the seed cotton inside.
Round Fluffy Clumps in which cotton grows on a cotton plant.

6. Lint- Fiber from the cotton plant

7. Seed Cotton-Cotton and seed together from the boll

8. Cotton bale
Pressed and compressed, or tied bundle of cotton- Generally lbs.
They can be round or rectangular.

9. Cotton Picker/Baler Machine

10. Cotton Picker Efficiency
Efficiency of harvesting equipment varies significantly- age, condition, field and environmental conditions.
The proportion of the crop that ends up in the picker basket may vary between %75-%95.
Under good conditions, pickers will be able to gather roughly %95 of the seed cotton, containing both lint and cottonseed into the machine.

11. Cotton Bale- delivery

12. Cotton Gin

13. Cotton Gin Tournout The cotton gin then processes the seed cotton.
It removes the Bolls, Sticks and Seeds leaving just the lint to process into cloth.
The Gin Tournout ranges from 38% – 50%.

14. Boll Rot

15. Hard Lock and Seed Sprouting in Cotton Lint

16. How much cotton from Arizona?
About 900 cotton farms produce an average total of 600,000 bales. That's enough cotton for at least one pair of jeans for every person in the United States.

17. We will be estimating both gross and net cotton harvest.

18. Now we know
the variables,
let’s get to
estimating!