Abstract: An overall system of transporting and handling seed cotton comprising apparatus for and process steps of (a) compressing seed cotton after gathering thereof, (b) storage, (c) transport and (c) decompression and dispersion prior to ginning, is designed around (1) a transport pallet and (2) a pallet and module load discharge and manipulation apparatus adapted to manipulate the loaded pallet, separate the load and the pallet and treat the load.