Regarding your thanks at the end: if a marketing study was done, I’ll bet a very large share of us watch because of your cheerfulness. Never discount the way God has blessed you with cheerfulness.

We always knew that farmers grow the food we eat, but we don’t always give them credit for growing our clothes. Thank You.

Cotton is the fabric of our lives!!!

Great video. Hey Grant, we need you to do a 360 burnout in your cool car. LOL 😂 Hey y’all can come to Louisiana and video the pine tree plantations, the saw mill process, and the making of plywood, different size lumber, how they clear or select cut the trees, how they plant cutovers, etc. There is so many different modes of farming. Like my Dad told me years ago after being stationed overseas in the military, America is the greatest country in the world. Stay safe.

We’ll Miss Nebraska…I’m pretty sure I heard you use a very “Texas word”….”They drove us all over tar-nation” 😂🤣😅 Love it! This was a fabulous, educational, and entertaining video! The whole process for Cotton is pretty amazing. Thanks for showing us the ropes! Love ❤️ you, Grammy

No matter where I have ever went, I love factory tours.

Although I am Europe, I always liked the life of these people from Texas, they always have that smile and work with all their heart.

"Laura Farms" is about the only thing good thing to come out of the Covid epidemic. Good job.

Laura and Grant are great Ambassadors for Agriculture.....!!!!

Your ticket to heaven has been punched with your visit to West Texas. I grew up in Lubbock and live in Amarillo for 33 years (1991-2024 present). I was a fire fighter in Lubbock in 1977 and put out a gin fire in the staging yard. Back then, cotton was brought from the field, to the gin, in cotton trailers (now extinct). The flat terrain background in this video brings back great memories when I lived in Lubbock. You and Grant have a great channel.

You have allowed most of us a chance to see things we will never get to see in person. I still go back and watch the videos from New York. So very interesting. And these opportunities allow you and Grant to spend time together without the constant work on the farm. Praying for Grandpa.

I built a cotton Gin when I was in 5th grade 1973 for a history project.

I’m working in the last part you shared. I’m driving one of the trucks bringing it from a gin to a Lubbock warehouse. It’s a busy time of year.

Hi Laura, I have enjoyed your cotton vacation video’s I live in North East Arkansas. We are a big cotton industry area too. All up and down the Mississippi river delta on east and west sides of River from St. Louis to Natchez Mississippi. Take a search for yourself about paddle wheel steamboats hauling bales of cotton through the port of Memphis Tennessee. I think enjoy it. Today I am retired from working 30 years in manufacturing, but as a young man I did work as a custom cotton harvester with two row international cotton pickers 1968 - 1978. I also visited Lubbock Texas 1972.

When I was a kid in Arizona in the early 60's I lived across the road from cotton fields so I would cross the Irrigation ditch and pick a little bit of cotton. And we had a Cotton gin in our town. I'm 63 now and this is the first time I've ever seen the process. It's really something to see. Thank you for sharing this video. It was very enjoyable. And brought back some great memories..

Again, very impressive, I have never seen a cotton gin doing it’s thing. Thanks for taking us along it was truly awesome.

Eli Whitney would be very impressed with this operation.

I found those to be fascinating too! That is different then it is sold here. It is sold in the field . Then shipped to the gin ; loaded on the truck and sent straight to whomever bought it. The gin gets the seeds for their payment for ginning services and the trash is composted out back and sold by the gin

Coming from a family of cotton ginners I totally enjoyed this video!👍👍👍

Great video and great presentation, WELCOME TO TEXAS.

Perfect ending. Most superhero movies don't have sequel teasers that good!

Your charisma and joie de vivre are absolutely intoxicating. Whoever gets to stay with you is charmed indeed.

Glad I find your video because I'm always lived in city. I like the knowledge how to farmers do things and are important to us citicent.

Watching your conclusion to this video Laura. I am 60 years old and was in the FFA 40 years ago plus and I can remember at the time that the state was made when we were at the convention in 1978 Kansas City that one American Farmer at that time would feed and or clothe 45 families besides his own, I think the last statistic I heard now we were over 80 the efficiency and the dedication the American Farmer as far as I'm concerned has no match anywhere else in this world. And I am proud extremely proud to be part of that industry and I'm also deeply pleased as a man my age looking to see people like you and Grant and watching you take up the mantle from my generation your responsibilities are going to be greater and you're going to have to feed and close more than we did but watching you too young people and others like you on these KZfaq channels if my mind when I see people like you ready to take up the reins of our industry here you and Grant and other young people like you are the future of agriculture in this nation in the future of the nation itself and I have no right as a complete and total stranger to tell you how proud I am of you and these other young people that I watch on KZfaq like you but you guys are great I am happy that through the miracle of technology I've gotten acquainted with you

This was so very cotton pickin cool to see and learn about. Thank you!

I haul the seed out of that gin I seen when y’all got there pretty cool video

This brings back so many memories of growing up in West Tennessee. Much different with the automation and technology than the 70s and 80s when I helped my Papa and Dad.

Thank you Laura and Grant! 99% of America has not a clue what Agriculture does. They have no idea how it gets on their back or to their table. Great Videos

Cool that you visit other farmers and make a "How they do it" thing :)

Grew up in cotton country in Georgia in the 1950s. What a difference in the industry now. Thanks for sharing this.

Great content, very interesting. I can see another channel coming up. "Laura Farms On The Road" or "On the Road With Laura Farms"

I've lived close to these fields for 40 years and had no idea how any of this works. Very interesting. Thank you for the show and tell.

I was born and grew up in west Texas and always kinda took these things for granted. This adventure with you guys grounded my feet and gave me a new appreciation for our area farmers for how hard they work and what they do for the entire world!

Laura Come to the hill country when you’re in Texas. It’s beautiful and you can tour all the vineyards around Fredericksburg and see how we grow grapes for wine. We’d love to have you guys.

I went to Texas Tech and lived in Lubbock for 20+ years and never knew all of this! Fascinating to see the insides!

Laura, on behalf of us city- folk, THANK YOU for taking us along on your farming journeys and making every moment a teaching opportunity. Hopefully my fellow Texans showed y’all some genuine hospitality. And the fact that you just said “tarnation”… :)

Welcome to the great state of Texas and partically my area, west Texas. You were just a few miles from here in Idalou. Would've loved to meet yall. Hope for yall to be greatly blessed while here. God bless yall and thanks for highlighting. Texas cotton!

Another great video. nice how you show us the agriculture in your country. greetings from germany .

We haul cotton seed from the South back up to Wisconsin for feed to the Dairy Farmers..

Wow, this is just another 4+ excellent video from Laura Farms. Many thanks. I might add that it is easy to see why Grant smiles so much!!! Well done Laura and Grant and all involved.

Very interesting and informative video going to have a hard time topping this thank you

thanks I learned something today watching this video. Of course I love your videos keep up the good work

I really enjoy your video's. I would suggest coming to the great state of Montana sometime and hitching a ride on a combine with a stripper header, or riding along with someone during sugar beet harvest. you could even follow the beets from the field through the processing plant in Billings, MT. Keep up the good work and blessings to you and your family.

8:35 Laura: "These forklift drivers are no joke" 8:43 Forklift driver: hits cotton bale 😂

I really learned how cotton is harvested & put through the gin. Thanks for such an educational video.

You learn things so quick! You are quite amazing! Thanks!

In your other videos we can many see what must be done for our eat. In this and the video before we saw many what must be done for our clothes. Yes and in all your videos, your enthusiasm is so wonderful and you realy transmit him to us. Thank you for your awesome videos Laura! :)

They use to teach about Eli Whitney in history class who patented the cotton gin in 1794.

"Tarnation"! Haven't heard that outside the movies since I was a kid...

Welcome to the most beautiful American farmer.

Great video,now I know where it's coming from,great job. Not sure if your going to school for marketing or what hosting a show would be called but you do a great job of getting all the information.

Thanks Laura awesome viewing and content as always blessings from NZ

Fantastic video. Farming on a scale that most countries can only dream of.

My family has a small farm in Childress Texas, we grew cotton when I was growing up. I have cousins who had a gin repair service, they worked like crazy during harvest. I had not seen a modern gin, your video was really neat to see some of the modern improvement they have made to the process. Keep up the good work!!!

Fascinating, you are so good at explaining things. The things we take for granted. I have lived in Texas for 50 years, and I had no idea Texas produced this much cotton. Thanks for educating me.

Amazing!! Thank’s Laura and Grant for taking us on the tour!!

It’s incredibly hard to imagine all the sheep that must be sheared to fill a warehouse full of the fluffy stuff.

Been a cotton farmer in Arizona Gilbert so many years of arrigating picking discing plowing planting cultivating lot of hours and care and then worry about cotton weavles , crop dusting oooweee, stick what you doing girlfriend but at the end of the day it's satisfying it's in our blood for generations to come, with cotton I'd just go naked💯🤣

Hi Laura, and welcome to Texas. I'm glad you and Grant could come and see what we do. Texas isn't known for raising food grade produce, except for beef cattle; some vegetables and fruits are grown down in the Valley, and some rice is grown on the Coast. Most of our produce is cotton and other fibers and sorghum for animal feeds. I have high hopes for the hemp business, once the politicos pull their heads our of their a__es. There's more to it than that, actually; not that I blame you for not showing the whole process. It's much more than you could accommodate in a few KZfaq vids and just a vacation. However, the oil from the seeds has many uses, and it processed in facilities much like the cotton gin you visited. Even the waste-- seed hulls, mostly-- is used for animal feed. There's a whole other story in shipping the cotton as well; something I know about because I was raised in a cotton port. Suffice it to say, few people other than farmers know how incredibly much cotton Texas grows, and what we do with it. If-- rather when-- you are looking for a new subject, you could do worse than looking into some rice farming. And, just next door in Louisiana, there's a lot of sugar cane grown. Nice vids. I'm glad you could come and see. And, since I welcomed you to Texas, let me also welcome you home. Texas is nice-- I think it's the greatest state in the Union-- but there's no place like home, wherever that may be. The best to you and Grant.

You'll kind of need to forgive me but I'm the guy that wonders how the fingers in the gin separate the fiber so the seed can fall out. For something to work at that speed and not damage the cotton in the process is actually kind of amazing.

Being a city guy/retail consumer only its nice to see how the raw products in the field make there way to the store. Keep up the great work on showing us just how much all types of farming effects our lives. I think you guys should take a few more "field" trips.

Thanks for sharing, Laura and Grant!

It opens up new storey's on my farming experiences never seen anything like that,thank you for taking us with you,everything is bigger in Texas

Wow! Cool video. A big thank you for showing the whole enchilada for cotton. Your narrative was both clear and informative. Thank you for a great video - I learned a lot.

Great story, great job!

Like watching Mike Rowes dirty jobs. You’re good at rundowns and explaining processes!

I remember when the gins would burn the trash rather than composting it. Hugh clouds of dirty brown smoke. The smoke was heavy and anyone who wasn't born in our cotton country thought it stunk; we thought it smelled like money. I wish you could have visited the cotton seed oil mill in Lubbock where the seed is pressed to produce the oil.

Enjoyed our video trip to Texas and the lesson on cotton farming and processing. Thanks for another great video.

You should plan a trip to the cottonseed mill to see all they do with the seed, that will make your head explode. Good job in the cotton patch and the gin...🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👆

Cotton seed is also used for cattle feed and oil. Love the video!

you're good at explaining this... even if you are just repeating exactly what you're told--you're good at this

Thanks Laura cotton lesson. I enjoyed learning how cotton done. I could tell Grant was enjoying himself too.

On cross country field trips I am always interested in what agriculture is happening. Thanks for sharing this. Maybe it can be a series? Tobacco in the south, nuts in California, berries in Oregon, etc.

Great video Laura, super interesting to watch this. Greetings from germany.🤗

Laura being born in the 50s ,little know fact,the trash...burrs used to be burned close to the gin....many of the men who worked in the Gin were addicted to the smell of the burrs burning. My Dad was. So glad to see cotton refining had improved. 😊❤ from Texas

I will have to say I have learned more from these last two videos than I have for a very long time. Thank you Laura and Grant for putting the time and effort into showing us another form of farming. It's hard to imagine, when seeing all the modern field equipment, that all that picking used to be done by hand. With your presentation style I can see why you are given the opportunities that you get, you, Laura with you vocal clarity of speech is so easy to follow and get drawn into what you are showing. May the work on your farms continue to prosperous, and give us many more enjoyable hours of following you about.

Super awesome video. Being from Wisconsin, we don’t grow cotton around here. So again, thank you and have a great day! 😎

Amazing video and trip

Does "Tarnation" Texas even have a Zip Code? Great video.

Something else I learned about today. It like a adult Sesame Street.

Driven through West Texas countless times and have seen cotton in its various forms out in the field... growing, ready for harvest, harvested & bailed, etc... Knowing that Cotton is King, I've always wondered about the logistics of going from field to field jacket. Thank you very much for that quick, but thorough overview of the process. The fact of that one cotton gin being able to produce 20 tons of cotton per hour is mind boggling. The average person does not have a clue what all work is involved in bringing food to their table, let alone the clothes on their back. PLEASE keep this channel going and I look forward to your other vids!!!!

Ginning has come a long way just from the late '80s and early '90s ! I was a ginner in West Texas for a number of years. Where everything was pretty much old school. We even manually bagged, and wire strapped each bale. Modules were rare and a treat once a few farmers advanced in their harvesting capabilities. Otherwise it was suction tubes and trailers ! One had to be on their feet as well back in those does, as fire detection wasn't as it is today !

Very informative, I had no idea. Really good video, you did a great job holding my attention. Wonderful thirteen plus minutes.

Love the adventures. So road trip to Hawaii see where Pineapples come from or maybe learn a little about Caribbean sugarcane?

Laura you are the best! Great video with a whole lot of info. The one thing I see to pick a small bone is the warehouse drivers were not driving fork lifts, those were clamp trucks. Not a biggie.

I loved both of your Cotton picking and cotton gin posts..Growing up in Iowa and Illinois I was familiar with farming of corn and soy beans..Now living in Texas you should make a trip to Granbury in the fall to participate in a Pecan harvest ...The Anthony Family owns a Pecan Plantation ..We live on the Plantation but have nothing to do with the Pecan Orchard ..But it is interesting to see how the trees are taken care of and the trees are tended and shook to drop the pecans ..Maybe they will let you and Grant shack the trees ...LOL

I hunted pheasant in cotton fields in central California in the early 70s but I never realized what it took to make the jeans or t-shirts I wore growing up. Thanks Laura and Grant for showing us that we shouldn't take for granted where are food and clothes come from.

I just drove through that area of Texas for a trip from San Antonio TX to Cascade MT, and back. The cotton was being harvested when we drove up and down I-27. You need to go to South Carolina and see a peanut harvest. Sugar Beets in the Saginaw Valley area of Michigan.

When I run the road in a semi truck I picked up part of a load of cotton in Oklahoma and then drove to Lubbock to load the other part of load. Those buildings look very familiar to me. After loading I then drove to Erin NC to a mill I believe they made bolts of material that would be used at the sewing factory to be made into the garments that we wear today. Today the material would be shipped over seas then made into garments then shipped back to the US as finished products store ready to be sold to the consumer thanks so much for your videos and keep them coming

This was so fascinating! Thanks for taking us along Laura!

I echo what these other folks are saying. Thank you to you, and your husband for taking us along to see this and all of the other wonderful and informative destinations you take us to. Great channel.

We live in Crockett County Tennessee. Our county has numerous cotton farmers! Our five acres are bordered on all four sides by cotton fields. There are two cotton gins within 5 miles of our house. Much smaller in scale compared to the one you visited. Thank you for the informative video!!!!😎🇺🇸

Having been raised in Alabama (cotton producing state) and growing cotton for over 40 years, I guess I just take it for granted that most other farmers know something of the cotton industry. Glad y'all got to see it in action! That's an impressive gin operation, and fairly typical of most of the modern day gins I see. It's still pretty common to see some small independent gins around, and some large producers even gin their own cotton. Not much waste at all in a cotton plant! That gin trash is great compost, as you mentioned, and the seeds are GOLD for the gins! And, no ma'am, you never mention the F Word around us cotton farmers! It's one big reason for all of the mirrors and cameras on pickers and strippers. I imagine you saw those folks make a BIG effort to keep the pickers and strippers as empty and clean as possible at day's end, I know we do. One little ember, smoldering in an accumulator is all it takes. There goes your 900K machine!

Laura...You are living the true HARD WORKING American dream! God Bless all of you American Farmers.

Laura we couldn't see these amazing video's without you and your interest in farming. So thank you very much for wanting to share your farming life with us and thank all of your sponsors for reaching out to other farms and co-ops for allowing you to come and film everything. I'm just glad we have the young farmers that wants to continue doing what their parents and grandparents have done for years.....kudos to the future farmer....

I love your enthusiasm. Keep going! Such a pleasure to watch your videos!

Thanks Laura and Grant for the tour. It is great to see this process.

VERY INFORMATIVE, LAURA. GREAT FILM, KEEP THEM COMING . YOU AND TRENT BE SAFE.

That was very interesting. The next step is to see how it is turned into thread. In my days as a weaver I worked with wool, going through the processes to make a fleece into clothing. Also in my college years I worked through the holidays at an explosives factory mainly for quarries. Two of the strict rules were never to say the word fire because that triggered an immediate response. The other was to never run unless a mixing shed was about to explode. Running was a signal something was wrong. There were other rules relating to wrist watches, belt buckles and the content of your pockets.

I live in Oklahoma and have seen the cotton growing in the fields. I have seen it being harvested but never the gin.Thank you for showing this and I look forward to seeing your videos .I always learn something.