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THE STORY OF COTTON
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Products and Byproducts of Cotton
Cotton
Lint Cotton Seed
Fabric, Yarn Cotton Seed Oil Hulls
Refined Cooking Oil
Rubber, Plastics
Glycerin
Soap, Cosmetics
Fertilizer
Livestock Feed
Explosives
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Where Does Cotton Grow?
Top Cotton Producing States
44%
17%
13%
14%
12%
TX
MS
GA
AR
CA
Number of bales in millions. Source: National Cotton Council of America
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Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
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Cotton Production in Millions of Bales
Texas 4.92 Arizona 0.57
Mississippi 1.88 Alabama 0.57
Arkansas 1.61 Oklahoma 0.19
Georgia 1.54 South Carolina 0.13
California 1.41 Virginia 0.09
Tennessee 0.79 Florida 0.07
North Carolina 0.78 Kansas 0.06
Louisiana 0.75 New Mexico 0.04
Missouri 0.58
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Millions of acres of cotton grow across the Southern United States
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THE STORY OF COTTON
Cotton Pickers or Brush Strippers move through the cotton field
harvesting cotton off six or eight rows of cotton at a time. The
cotton is stored in baskets above the harvester and then dumped
into a cotton trailer when the basket is full.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
THE STORY OF COTTON
The cotton is transferred from the cotton trailers to a
module builder.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
The module builder compresses the cotton to form a module (compactly pressed block) of cotton.
A module holds 12-14
bales of cotton.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
The modules are hauled to a cotton gin or to the gin’s
storage yard by a module mover.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
THE STORY OF COTTON
The cotton fiber is separated from the cottonseed at the gin. The cotton is vacuumed into
tubes that carry it to a dryer to reduce moisture and improve
the fiber quality. Cleaning equipment removes leaf trash, sticks and other foreign matter.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
The seed is sent to a cottonseed oil mill where it
is processed.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
Cotton Seed Oil
Cottonseed Oil Mill
Cotton Seed Oil
Cottonseed is separated from the lint at the cotton ginThe seed is cooked and pressed to separate the oil
The cottonseed oil is used in many products you use
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The fiber (or lint) is compressed into bales, banded with eight
steel straps, sampled for classing or grading, wrapped
for protection then loaded onto trucks for shipment to storage
yards, or textile mills.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
Cotton bales are 55 inches tall, 28 inches wide, and 21
inches thick, and weigh around 500 pounds. One bale is enough cotton to
make 325 pairs of jeans.
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THE STORY OF COTTON
Textile mills purchase cotton bales from gins or cotton
warehouses. The mills start with raw cotton and process it in stages until it produces yarn
fibers twisted into threads used in weaving of cloth. The
cloth is dyed and cleaned, and shipped to clothing producers.
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Cotton Video
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