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variable-rate pesticide application. A great deal of mechanization has been incorpo-
rated into the harvesting and ginning of cotton. In recent years, sensing and control
systems have been added to harvesters and particularly gin systems, to the extent that
a complete automation system in a cotton gin can automatically include or exclude
entire cleaning machines from the ginning sequence based on inline sensors. The
continued improvement and profitability of the cotton industry will depend on fur-
ther development of automation systems that integrate mechanical, sensing, and con-
trol technologies.
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