A Brief Summary Of Dallas

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Around five to six years ago, Dallas started growing cotton and never looked back. After fifty years, cotton has come back to his district and is becoming more and more popular. This is due to development of new varieties for the climate, the round bale harvester, and water becoming more readily available. The area continues to profit from the cotton industry and sees a positive outlook for the commodity in the future.
With five hundred pound bales, Dallas aims to grow fourteen bales per hector. In order to reach this goal, he must irrigate the cotton. Flood irrigation with from the nearby river supplies the cotton with the water needed to flourish. On average Dallas goes through fifty mega liters a day. This system …show more content…

If the air is more humid, it causes the cotton to be discolored. The better the grade the better the premium for the cotton will be. Dallas said that the premium amounts are usually a lot lower than the deductions. Overall Dallas is really happy to be a part of a growing cotton industry and its bright future.
Reflective Summary
The innovation Dallas was starting to use for his irrigation shows just how advanced the agriculture world has grown to over the years. In climates and soils like Australia’s where it is very difficult to grow certain crops, the cotton grows are definitely defying theses odds.
Dallas’s production of cotton shows just how much better Australians are at producing cotton than Americans. Americans produce on average ten bales per acre while he produces about twelve to thirteen bales and acre on average. Even though the climate isn’t very good for certain crops in Australia, it’s perfect for cotton causing it to beat American production numbers.
Going to the cotton farm was completely worth our time. With most of us never seeing cotton before, including myself, it was intriguing to see how it was produced. The cotton farm was a stop where I learned a lot and possibly apply it to my future

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