Resowing cost money and labor, but it had to be done.
Li Long figured some of these people might take the easy way out and not resow, but he did not concern himself too much with that. They had come to ask his advice, and he had given his opinion. That was enough.
Since the Cooperative had not lost much and the weather was good today, they might as well resow right away and save themselves trouble later.
It was only a single strip of plastic mulch, less than two hundred meters long, so they took just one tractor with a seeder attached.
But the Cooperative members and quite a few people who had come to ask about things all followed along.
It was also the Fourth Team members' first time seeing cotton resown, and they were quite curious.
Li Long did not bother with all that. The damage was minor, so they did not need to bring much. The tractor pulled the seeder, while the vehicle following behind carried a roll of plastic mulch and some seeds.
Someone also brought two iron spades. That was enough.
When they entered the field and saw footprints, they knew Li Long's eldest brother and the others had left them when they came to inspect it earlier.
They found the row where the mulch had blown away. The small four-wheel tractor drove in from the head of the field, followed the mulch, and stopped where it had been blown off. Li Long used an iron spade to cut through the torn mulch, shoveled earth over the loose end on the ground to hold it down, then walked forward to check the seedlings beneath the mulch.
Nearly fifty or sixty percent had emerged. That was not bad.
But these seedlings could no longer be