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Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins

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  • Wilmot, Charles A.
  • Watson, Harold

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Excerpts from the report: The trend to machine harvesting in all areas of the Cotton Belt has shortened the harvest season and placed new demands on cotton gins for higher production rates. To cope with the problem, many firms have added one or more new gins or separate unloading and seed-cotton storage facilities. The latest recommendation for faster unloading and processing is high-capacity ginning. Installations of larger, faster ginning machinery and equipment generally mean higher total connected loads which, in turn, result in higher electrical energy costs. Therefore, unless increases in ginning rates are sufficient to compensate, power costs per bale will continue to climb as gin plants grow in size. Objectives of this study were to determine (1) total power requirements, energy consumption, and costs of operating high-capacity gins by specific ginning functions; and (2) differences in total power requirements and costs of operating high-capacity gins and conventional gins.

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  • Wilmot, Charles A. & Watson, Harold, 1966. "Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins," Marketing Research Reports 313170, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313170
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313170
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    1. True, Arthur W. & Hardaway, Irene L., 1967. "Economics of Agriculture -- Reports and Publications Issued or Sponsored by USDA's Economic Research Service, October 1965-September 1966," Miscellaneous Publications 321238, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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