The gin improved the separation of the seeds and fibers by a factor of 50, but the cotton still needed to be picked by hand. The demand for cotton roughly doubled each decade following Whitney’s ...

The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin ...

Lubbock Cotton Growers merged with Lone Star Ag in Brownfield, and bought Liberty Co-op a few years ago. The Gin Manager, Jerry Butman, said it is getting harder to keep a gin in business as the price ...

DOERUN, Ga. (WALB) - It’s been a month since an EF-2 tornado ripped through Doeun and destroyed a cotton gin and it’s going to take more than a clean-up to get it back fully operational.

BURTON, Texas — A three-story cypress wood frame structure covered with corrugated tin is a monument to 13 Southeast Texas farmers pursuing their dreams of making a living growing cotton, a crop ...

The gin machine separates cotton seeds from cotton fibre It is capable of processing 50 bales per hour A second cotton gin is being built 500km to the west at Kununurra The gin cost about $70 ...

At first glance, the loss of a cotton gin in Arkansas seems to reflect the waning number of cotton acres in any given year, but the picture is a little more complex, said Scott Stiles, extension ...