This week’s Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts. All cuts are Tom Wedegaertner, Director of Cotton Research and Marketing at Cotton Incorporated.
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The use of gin waste as a component in erosion control products, building products, composites and laminates represents an opportunity to dramatically increase the value of cotton gin waste. Tom Wedegaertner, Director of Cotton Research and Marketing at Cotton Incorporated says they are aggressively looking at ways to add value to cotton gin byproducts in an overall mission of improving the profitability of growing cotton.
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Wedegaertner says profitability is a fairly simple concept.
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A lot of the value will go directly back to the producer through reduced ginning costs says Wedegaertner.
