I am a cotton ginner. I receive dirty, trashy, wet, smelly, raw seed cotton. I dry, clean, and remove the cottonseed from this seed cotton. I comb, clean, and bale the lint cotton. As ginners, we strive to outturn the best economical grade possible. If our producers are getting a grade that returns them the most economical benefit then they are delighted, and we as ginners feel that our job has been accomplished. In the cotton market of today as in the past, we ginners put more emphasis on two characteristics of the class card grade and staple. Sure I want to know what the strength and mike readings are, however I cannot make adjustments in the ginning process to affect the strength and mike.

Today, as in the past Beltwide Cotton Conferences, cotton classing becomes a major topic of discussion. Module averaging of the strength reading is our topic today. Everyone here is aware of why the LUDA wants to module average, for repeatability. We as ginners go through a lot of work to gin cotton and send the samples to the classing office. Our customer, the producer, has his livelihood at stake. We want to know the true characteristics of the cotton bale, and when the bale is delivered to a textile mill, we want that mill to have confidence that the class card has the correct information for them to make their lay downs. If module averaging will accomplish this task, then we should help the process.