This presentation addresses both the onboard module weighing system available on Cotton Pickers and Cotton Strippers for on-farm trial evaluation and the ways to reduce plastic contamination from round module wrap during the harvest, transport, and ginning stages. The onboard module weighing system has the potential, if properly calibrated, to eliminate the need for in-field scales when determining module weights for evaluating treatment differences for cotton production. The system has accurately differentiated treatment differences, and when data were pooled across five states, the R2 weight prediction was 0.97, with more than 415 observations. Another critical issue is how to reduce round module wrap contamination. Many processes that can be followed during the harvest, module transport, and ginning stages to help reduce and eliminate module wrap plastic contamination, and this talk address each of those stages.
