Tom Stallings of the Funston Gin in Funston, Georgia, is known as the 2021 Southeast Cotton Ginner of the 12 months. The award was introduced on the Southern Southeastern Annual Assembly held not too long ago in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Southern Southeastern is a joint assembly of the Southern Cotton Growers and Southeastern Cotton Ginners Affiliation. The award was introduced by Nationwide Cotton Council President Kent Fountain.
Stallings started his profession in agriculture working for Gold Kist after serving his nation in Viet Nam and graduating from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Faculty in Tifton, Georgia. Stallings labored with many farmers whereas at Gold Kist and had a dream of sometime proudly owning a cotton gin. In 1987, he put collectively a deal to buy a small gin from the 50 farmers who owned it. That gin grew from about 3,000 bales per yr to a excessive of greater than 90,000 bales in 2001.
Stallings has held quite a few management positions with the Southeastern Cotton Ginners, Nationwide Cotton Council and is a previous president of the Cotton Warehouse Affiliation of America. He has represented the cotton business internationally in these numerous roles. He usually sponsors native youth golf equipment and groups and is a longtime supporter of the Moss Farm Aquatic and Diving Heart in Moultrie, Georgia.
The Southeastern Cotton Ginners Affiliation awards the Southeast Ginner of the 12 months to deserving recipients who’ve proven management and meet the {qualifications} set out by the awards committee. The awardee should be a progressive ginner who endeavors to maintain cotton robust of their group, is lively within the business, revered by his friends, lively in civic affairs and customarily supportive of the cotton business. Nominations are submitted by different members of the affiliation and chosen by the award committee.
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Nationwide Cotton Ginners Board Assembly Set Throughout The 2022 NCC Annual Assembly
On-line pre-registration and lodge reservations for these planning to attend the Nationwide Cotton Council’s 2022 Annual Assembly could be performed at www.cotton.org/information/conferences/am/.
The assembly will probably be held Feb. 11-13, 2022, on the Marriott Marquis in Houston. Room reservations additionally could be made by calling the lodge at 1-877-688-4323. For air and automotive rental reservations, contact Peggy Robinson, the NCC’s journey advisor at Travelennium, at 1-800-672-6694 or probinson@travelennium.com.
The assembly will embrace the Nationwide Cotton Ginners Board Assembly from 1-2:30 p.m. and the American Cotton Producers session from 2:30-4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11. This system committee conferences will happen on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 9-10:30 a.m. The ultimate occasion, the Basic Session, begins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, and concludes by 10 a.m. that day. It would embrace the NCC’s planting intentions survey outcomes.
The Saturday luncheon will function a “2022 Election Outlook” by David Wasserman, who serves as Home editor and senior election analyst for the non-partisan Cook dinner Political Report.
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NCC Contamination Prevention Movies
Plastic contamination poses a severe menace to U.S. cotton’s repute within the world fiber market. The Nationwide Cotton Council has developed a YouTube video coaching collection on the topic that consists of 12 chapters. The movies can be found in each English and Spanish variations. Listed here are the subjects:
⇒ Introduction by Dr. Gary Adams, NCC president/CEO.
⇒ Introduction to prevention of plastic contamination. A overview of sources of potential plastic contamination and the way they have an effect on the textile processing, leading to decreased demand for U.S. cotton.
⇒ Within the subject (producers, customized harvesters and harvester operators). A overview of the place to search for plastic contaminates within the subject earlier than harvest and find out how to correctly retailer empty rolls of spherical module wrap.
⇒ Throughout harvest (producers, customized harvesters and harvester operators). A overview of the significance of following the John Deere spherical module harvester guides and protecting open communication with the gin supervisor.
⇒ Machine operation (producers, customized harvesters and harvester operators). A overview of machine calibration and customary issues seen on the John Deere 7760, CP690 and CS690 cotton harvesters that may result in contamination from spherical module wrap.
⇒ Module dealing with (producers, customized harvesters, harvester operators, staging tractor drivers and module truck drivers). A overview of one of the best dealing with practices to stop contamination when transferring spherical modules within the subject.
⇒ stage modules within the subject (producers, customized harvesters, harvester operators, staging tractor drivers and module truck drivers). A overview of optimum location/alignment when staging spherical modules within the subject.
⇒ Loading a module truck (module truck drivers). A overview of most well-liked module truck chain varieties and proper chain-to-ground pace when choosing up spherical modules in a subject utilizing a conventional module truck.
⇒ Loading a flatbed truck (module loader drivers within the subject). A overview of greatest loading practices when utilizing a flatbed trailer to haul spherical modules from the sphere to the gin.
⇒ Unloading modules within the gin yard (module truck drivers, drivers of module loaders on the gin, gin managers/superintendents and gin workers). A overview of the optimum location/alignment for staging spherical modules on the gin yard.
⇒ deal with spherical modules on the gin (gin managers/superintendents, gin module feeder workers and different gin workers). A overview of find out how to keep away from wrap punctures or tears earlier than ginning.
⇒ Unwrapping/chopping open modules (gin managers/superintendents, gin module feeder workers and different gin workers). A overview of the significance of following correct wrap elimination methods and John Deere spherical module reduce pointers to keep away from plastic contamination when unwrapping.
⇒ Conclusion. This chapter is for everybody.
The Nationwide Cotton Council contributed to this text.
Cotton’s Calendar
Some listed occasions could also be canceled or postponed resulting from COVID-19. Please confirm the standing with the person organizations.
Feb. September 11: Louisiana Agricultural Know-how & Administration
Convention, Paragon On line casino Resort, Marksville, Louisiana.
Feb. 11-13: NCC Annual Assembly, Marriott Marquis, Houston, Texas
Feb. 22: Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Annual Assembly, Massive Nation Corridor, Taylor County Expo Heart, Abilene, Texas.
