Day 170 This past week was our last week of work for the season. To summarize:

Picked 2715 acres of cotton, for a total of 176 modules.
Our average was 17 tons per module for a total of 2992 tons
Around 28 bales per module that's 4928 bales of cotton.
Price of $500 per bale for a total of $2,464,000 in cotton (Currently it's only around $400 per bale)
Had the chance to drive 3 different tractors, an '84 and '00 Case and an old '70 Deutz D120, as well as a John Deere 9976 Cotton Picker.

The week was not with out some excitement as we seen one of our busiest day for pigging. Seen about 25 through out the day. It was a huge distraction as we were still picking and spraying for weeds. We also didn't work as hard as earlier in the year only putting in 8 or so hours a day. During one of the trips up the paddock Greg found 17 abandoned Emu eggs. He knew someone that carved them so we drilled and blew them out. It was kinda gross as some of the eggs smelled pretty bad. We also went to a clearing sale. The items for sale were pretty old and rusty, mostly ancient farm equipment and surprisingly a lot of junk like scrap steel and parts of this-n-that, nevertheless it was fun to see the auction part.
On Sunday the seven of us went out for dinner to a new local Indian restaurant. The Masala Hut opened a little while ago and neither us or them had tried it so we thought it would be a nice diner before we left. The food was fantastic. They had what they called a banquet where for a certain price per person we could try some of their most popular dishes. We tasted a few different kind of Naan bread, Samosas, Curry beef, some kind of lamb and a few different kind of chicken dishes. Our two favorites were definitely the Pika Masala and Mango chickens. It was a BYO restaurant so we brought a couple bottles of wine to go with dinner. It really was a good time.
Monday Greg got us in for a visit to the cotton gin in Dalby. It worked out perfect as it was his cotton that was getting ginned. I also picked up my wedding ring that I lost in the very first module that we built four months ago. The factory tour was extensive, it's come a long way from picking the seeds out by hand. First the modules are lined up and fed into a machine that breaks them down and fluffs them back out. The fluffed cotton moves down a conveyor belt and magnets remove anything metallic. Then the cotton gets blown up a chute, here the heavy scrap like cell phones and wallets that might be in there get left behind. It now enters the ginning machine from the top. Spindles with small close together teeth separate the organic garbage like stalk, leaves etc. and also remove the seeds. All that's left now is the cotton lint. This now gets pressed into 2x2x4 foot, 230kg bales by a huge underground press. Then a sample is taken to grade each bale, followed by bagging and tagging, before it's put outside for shipping. In total it takes them 20 minutes from start to finish to gin a module.
The next couple of days we spent loitering around the farm, getting our house cleaned and the van loaded up and ready to go.