ABSTRACT

The 26th Universal Cotton Standards Conference was held in Memphis, Tennessee on June 13 and 14, 2002. Conference attendance, which exceeded 175 in number, included 84 and 31domestic and foreign cotton industry representatives, respectively. Additional participants included 36 students from the Rhodes College International Cotton Institute and 25 USDA of-ficials. During the two day event, two of five proposals were adopted and 3,000 boxes of Universal Upland Cotton Grade Standards were approved. The two proposals adopted were the establishment of Universal HVI Micronaire Calibration Cotton Standards and a reference to be made in the Universal Cotton Standards Agreement to the USDA publication "Guidelines for HVI Testing".