Ginning.
Cotton comes in off the field and leaves as bales. What happens in between, and what to ask before you haul.
GIN OFFICE(806) 892-2535What the gin does to a load.
The order below is the sequence every gin follows. The specifics at this yard, capacity and turnaround, are questions for the office.
The load reaches the yard
Harvested cotton arrives from the field and waits its turn in the yard. During harvest the yard is the busiest place in town.
Drying and cleaning
Seed cotton is dried to a workable moisture and run through cleaning to take out burrs, sticks, leaf and field trash before it reaches the gin stands.
Ginning
The gin stands separate the lint from the seed. This is the step the whole building exists for, and it is where the name comes from.
Lint cleaning
The lint is cleaned again after ginning. How much cleaning a crop needs depends on how it came out of the field that year.
Baling and sampling
Lint is pressed into bales, tagged and sampled. The sample is what the classing office grades, and the grade is what the bale is worth.
Seed
Cottonseed comes off the gin as its own product. Ask the office how seed is handled and settled for members here.
Call to confirm.
These are the questions growers ask that this site will not answer for you, because the answers change and only the office has them.
Season hours and yard hours
When the office is open, and when the yard takes cotton during harvest.
Capacity and turnaround
How much the plant runs and how long a load waits in a normal year.
Membership
What it takes to gin here as a member of the cooperative, and how settlement works.
Module handling
What the yard is set up to take, and how you should stage cotton before you haul.
Before you haul, call.
The office can tell you what the yard is doing today.
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