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Describes the process of harvesting cotton in the San Joaquin valley. Opening with a panning shot of cotton fields, then a blossom appearing on the plants, fading to a pod that burst open revealing its white cotton insides. A cotton picking machine makes it’s way through the field collecting cotton, then dumping its harvest into a wire cage trailer. A shot of many trailers outside of a cotton gin. Bales of cotton being loaded onto a trailer. Cut to a different kind of film showing older processes for harvesting cotton. men tossing seeds and an older style pesticide machine moving through a field.