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Application of a Plant Location Model to an Area's Cotton Ginning Industry*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Stephen Fuller  and
Monty Washburn
Stephen Fuller
Affiliation:
New Mexico State University
Monty Washburn
Affiliation:
New Mexico State University
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The conventional cotton marketing system includes characteristics that impair its efficiency. This paper reports on a study which examined the potential operational efficiency gains in that portion of the system which involved the flow of seed cotton from the field through the ginning process. Up to 70 percent of the annual production is harvested in three to four weeks; the rest is harvested and processed during the remaining 3 1/2 to 4 months of the ginning season.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , July 1974 , pp. 151 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1974

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Footnotes

*

New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Paper No. 497.

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