Eliminating plastic in cotton may curb annual $384 million loss
Story Date: 8/28/2020

 

Source: Brad Haire, FARM PROGRESS, 8/25/20


Adverse weather hurt some locations, but in many others, cotton growers anticipate gin-clogging yields. There's a lot of pretty cotton out there but getting it from the field to the gin without plastic contamination remains a challenge to the industry. A new Cotton Incorporated document based on an interesting study provides growers, module handlers and ginners recommendations on handling round modules to eliminate plastic contamination.

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