The farm's 13,000-hectare cotton field, where Xu and an estimated 15,000 cotton pickers from outside Xinjiang work, accounts for only a fraction of Xinjiang's total output.

Firefighters say a cotton picker combine caught fire while it was operating. The incident happened in a cotton field near Farm Market 24 and County Road 44 around 3:00 pm Tuesday afternoon.

Lu Gaolin's granddaughter runs at a cotton field in Shawan City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 24, 2021. ... The cotton picker is way more efficient than manual labor.

A cotton picker operates in a field in Awat County of Aksu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 24, 2024. The harvest season of cotton has started in Awat.

A cotton picker has tipped over and caught fire in cotton field on the north side of U.S. 72.