Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 12/27/18

The Silver Lake Growers Cotton Gin was projected to gin 26,000 bales of cotton when it finished ginning area cotton last week. “Last year we ginned 22,000 bales off of 11,000 acres. That’s two bales per acre,” said Donald Smith, manager at the Silver Lake Growers Cotton Gin. “This year, we’ve got right at 15,000 acres, and we are going to do about 26,000 bales. We are going to gin more, but we had more acres to gin.” Smith said area cotton acres will produce about 800 pounds per acre this year, versus the 1,000 that an acre produced last year.

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