Idalou Co-op Gin Idalou, Texas
A West Texas cotton field in full open boll running to a flat horizon.

Your gin, on the same corner since 1935.

A member owned cotton gin at Idalou, with fuel and oil for the farms that gin here.

Call the gin GIN OFFICE(806) 892-2535

511 E 2nd St, Idalou, Texas. Ginning cotton here for 91 years. Rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau.

Idalou Co-op Gin has been in business since 1935, at 511 E 2nd St. Keith Grayson manages the gin. Two lines run out of the same yard: ginning, and fuel and oil for members.

A season at the gin.

What a cotton year typically looks like on the Texas High Plains, and where the gin picks it up. Weather sets the real dates every year, so read these as typical, not as a schedule.

IN THE FIELD AT THE GIN 01 Planting through early June Final plant date for insurance in Lubbock County is June 5. 02 Squaring and bloom by growth stage First white bloom runs 60 to 80 days from planting. 03 Cutout by growth stage Five nodes above the top white flower. The crop stops setting. 04 Harvest aids typically October Defoliation opens the crop up for the stripper. 05 Harvest and ginning typically from November High Plains cotton matures into November. The yard fills.

Scroll the rail sideways on a narrow screen.

Season timing from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: the June 5 Lubbock County final plant date for insurance purposes; the 60 to 80 day first bloom and the five nodes above white flower definition of cutout; and AgriLife Extension cotton specialist Ken Legé, who notes it is typical to start spraying harvest aids in October with most harvest beginning in November. Sources are listed in the README. Your own dates will move with the weather, so call the gin before you strip.

01

Ginning

Cotton comes off the stripper, into the yard, and through the gin. The lint goes to bales, the seed goes its own way. This is what the co-op was built to do, and it has done it here since 1935.

Cotton rows on sandy soil running to the field edge.

How a load moves through the gin

02

Fuel and oil

The co-op sells fuel and oil alongside the gin. Products, tank sizes and whether we run to your farm are questions for the office.

Fuel and oil

Open bolls and unopened bolls on the plant above sandy ground.
Sandy land, short season, and a crop that has to be ready before the first hard freeze.
Open cotton to a dead flat horizon with a transmission line crossing the sky.
The horizon out here does not get in the way of anything.

The yard is on 2nd Street.

Drive times below are measured on the road network from the gin, not estimated.

Measured driving distance and time from the gin yard.
FromMilesMinutes
Lorenzo8.510
Lubbock12.217
New Deal16.920
Ransom Canyon11.422
Slaton17.230
Shallowater22.628

These are road distances to nearby towns, not a statement of who the gin serves. If you are farther out, call and ask.

91 years is a long time for a gin to stay open on one corner. The co-op has been at it since 1935, and the office still answers the phone.

Call the gin.

Hours, capacity and fuel questions are best answered by the office.

(806) 892-2535

Fax (806) 892-3517 · 511 E 2nd St, Idalou, TX 79329