All-New Gin Boasts Highest Capacity In Texas
Thomas D. Valco
USDA-ARS
Stoneville, Miss
The new ginning facility for the Lubbock Cotton Growers (LCG) Coop Gin, that began operation at the end of October, is the largest new gin installation in the world for 2009. The influx of more picker varieties in the High Plains and the success of the boll weevil program mean much higher yields are being produced in that region than in past years. According to Rex Kennedy, LCG's board president, the group of farmers who belonged to the old facility, for example, has the potential to produce more than 100,000 bales just among themselves.
"At the older plant, bringing in much more than 60,000 bales stretches out the season, which causes farmers to have to wait to get their cotton ginned, leaves modules out in the weather longer and is hard on the gin manager and the gin help," Kennedy says.
source : cottonfarming
Thomas D. Valco
USDA-ARS
Stoneville, Miss
The new ginning facility for the Lubbock Cotton Growers (LCG) Coop Gin, that began operation at the end of October, is the largest new gin installation in the world for 2009. The influx of more picker varieties in the High Plains and the success of the boll weevil program mean much higher yields are being produced in that region than in past years. According to Rex Kennedy, LCG's board president, the group of farmers who belonged to the old facility, for example, has the potential to produce more than 100,000 bales just among themselves.
"At the older plant, bringing in much more than 60,000 bales stretches out the season, which causes farmers to have to wait to get their cotton ginned, leaves modules out in the weather longer and is hard on the gin manager and the gin help," Kennedy says.
source : cottonfarming
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