Broadcast Newsline: January 30, 2004

Tommy Valco, Cotton Technology Transfer and Education Coordinator at the USDA/Stoneville Ginning Research lab, recently discussed major trends in cotton ginning at the 2004 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.

Tommy Valco, Cotton Technology Transfer and Education Coordinator at the USDA/Stoneville Ginning Research lab, recently discussed major trends in cotton ginning at the 2004 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.

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By striving to increase capacity and volume, gins are implementing new technologies that ultimately benefit producers.

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Over the past ten years, although there have been minimal increases in the cost of ginning a bale of cotton, input costs continue to climb – forcing gins to become more efficient.

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With standard lint turnouts approaching 40 pounds of lint per 100 pounds of seed cotton brought to the gin, ginning technologies are helping cotton producer’s bottom lines.

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