Calendar Photo Contest DetailsThe Cotton Board wants to see your best cotton photos. One winning photo will be selected and featured in The Cotton Board’s 2019 Industry Calendar. To be eligible to win, contestants must first “like” The Cotton Board Facebook page and then email their high-res jpeg photo to sgorman@cottonboard.org. Up to three entries per contestant will be considered. The contest ends on October 5, 2018. Cotton Board staff will vote to determine the winning photo.
The Cotton Board calendar is an industry staple and is mailed to every cotton producer and ginner in the U.S. The winner will have their photo, along with photo credit, featured in the 2019 calendar and will also receive a cotton prize pack, including 25 copies of the calendar to share with friends and family, and other cotton prizes.
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Webast: Saving Energy in Cotton GinsEnergy costs represent 20% of the total cost of ginning and vary widely across facilities.. Identifying best practices for reducing energy consumption is important to gin owners, managers, and operators. In “Saving Energy in Cotton Gins,” a new webcast in the “Focus on Cotton” series, Paul A. Funk, agricultural engineer for the USDA–ARS, Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, makes energy-saving recommendations based on energy audits and monitoring studies conducted at more than 30 commercial cotton gins across the U.S. Cotton Belt.
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Cotton Fashion Delivered with AmazonCotton Incorporated teamed up with mega online retailer, Amazon, and curated a Fashion Delivered Collection which launched at New York Fashion Week. The collection features on-trend, versatile, and comfortable apparel for all occasions, available on Amazon. From bold, plaid prints to futuristic metallics, consumers can get Fashion Week styles from the runway straight to their doorstep through a click of a button.
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National Cotton Council Provides Contamination Training Resources One of the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) foremost priorities is the continued delivery of contamination-free cotton to U.S. cotton customers in the global marketplace – a need more critical than ever because of fierce competition from other growths and man-made fibers. The NCC urges producers, ginners and other industry members to strive for “zero tolerance” when it comes to seed cotton and lint contamination.The National Cotton Council of America has created a series of resources to train and educate producers, ginners and other industry members to strive for “zero tolerance” when it comes to seed cotton and lint contamination.
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