Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 9/20/18

Energy costs represent 20 percent of the total cost of ginning and vary widely across facilities. Identifying best practices for reducing energy consumption is important to gin owners, managers, and operators. In “Saving Energy in Cotton Gins,” a new webcast in the “Focus on Cotton” series, Paul A. Funk, agricultural engineer for the USDA–ARS, Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, makes energy-saving recommendations based on energy audits and monitoring studies...

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