Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 8-11, 2008
Nashville, Tennessee

Cotton Ginning - Friday Morning Session

Presiding: Chris Breedlove, Olton Coop Gin, Olton, TX
Organizer: Thomas D. Valco, USDA, ARS, Stoneville, MS

Comparison of Five Small-Scale Laboratory Gins to Seven Commercial Gins Sampled Across the Cotton Belt
J. Clif Boykin1, Derek P. Whitelock2, Michael D. Buser3, Carlos B. Armijo4, Greg A. Holt5, Thomas D. Valco6, Dennis S. Findley7, Edward M. Barnes8 and Michael D. Watson8, (1)USDA, ARS, Cotton Ginning Lab, Stoneville, MS, (2)USDA-ARS, Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM, (3)USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit, Lubbock, TX, (4)USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM, (5)USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX, (6)USDA, ARS, Stoneville, MS, (7)Southeastern Cotton Ginners Assn., Dawsonville, GA, (8)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC

Performance of a Commercially Available Microwave-Based Bale Moisture Content Meter
Christopher D. Delhom, USDA-ARS Cotton Ginning Research Unit, Stoneville, MS and Richard K. Byler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS

Pneumatic Fractionator for Cleaning Ginned Lint
Derek P. Whitelock1, Carlos B. Armijo1 and Edward M. Barnes2, (1)USDA-ARS, Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM, (2)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC

Gin-Based Marketing
Kyle Shofner, Schaffner Technologies, Inc, Knoxville, TN

Bale Bagging Effect on Bale Weight Change During Storage: Measured and Modeled
Richard K. Byler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS

Module Tarp Performance in Weathering Tests
Shay L. Simpson and Stephen W. Searcy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

An Expensive Bale of Cotton
Emerson E. Tucker, Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, Lubbock, TX

Economic Analysis of Transporting Seed Cotton with Semi Tractor Trailers
Mark Hamann, C. B. Parnell, Jr., S. L. Simpson, S. a. Emsoff and C. Hammock, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Sponsor: Cotton Ginning Conference