The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...

Blacksburg, Va. – Virginia Tech researchers are working on technologies that could create a new industry from a problem in the state's cotton-growing region. "Our goal is to add a value to the cotton ...

A group of kids with Duplin County 4-H visited Tri-County Cotton Gin farm on Monday, Nov. 22 and learned about the cotton ginning process. The kids, ages 5-18 were invited to see the ginning process ...

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in April and have been busy ...

In 2020, a group of four senior lecturers from Kirinyaga University embarked on a groundbreaking venture to innovate a portable multipurpose cotton micro-gin, aimed at separating seeds and lint from ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...

According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits. Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...

TANNER, Ala. (WAFF) - A cotton gin in Limestone County turned into a classroom for the day. Fifth graders from Athens and Limestone County schools got the chance to tour a cotton gin in Tanner. It’s a ...

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