Set a-thinkin’ by the national publicity given the Corn Belt ... came as free-lance pickers (paying their own $10 entry fee), but the majority represented civic-minded cotton communities.

Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation behind John Deere’s out-of-the-gate CP770 cotton picker ... acres (and 1,000 corn acres)—harvest ...