Comments on: A Working Cotton Dictionary (Words Cotton Folks Use that May Confuse Others)

By: A Gin Show, No Tonic or Limes — What Happens at a Cotton Gin Show | JP loves COTTON & more

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:01:25 +0000

[…] As someone who has a friend who really enjoys a good gin & tonic with a twist of lime…. I get it. The word has a different meaning all together — we think of big machines or a big building holding those machines that separate cotton lint from the seed. It’s another one of those reasons that a while back I wrote a working dictionary of cotton terms. […]

By: What cotton harvest problems come from rain? VIDEO

What cotton harvest problems come from rain? VIDEO — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:45:56 +0000

[…] can put a weight issue at play making cotton lint strain toward the ground. This issue of “stringout.” is a problem because often wind or rain actually turns that into fallout and then the […]

By: What do a cotton plant, blooms & bolls look like? VIDEO

What do a cotton plant, blooms & bolls look like? VIDEO — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:28:18 +0000

[…] I post things pretty often on cotton, you can see them through the overview of them on my Cotton 101 page or check out both the cotton category and cotton guest category on the blog. Some of my highest rated posts on cotton show what cotton plants look like, Things Farmers Think Through in Selecting Cotton Varieties, How Harvest has Changed in a Lifetime and A Working Cotton Dictionary (Words Cotton Folks Use that May Confuse Others) […]

By: Cotton 101 Video: Impacts of Rain on Cotton During #Harvest12 - a colorful adventure

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:27:30 +0000

[…] time holding onto the link so it starts to stringout (just realized that word wasn’t in my working cotton dictionary). If the rain is particularly hard or if its also windy, the link can actually fallout of the […]

By: How does a big rain impact a cotton farm? - a colorful adventure

How does a big rain impact a cotton farm? - a colorful adventure — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:33:58 +0000

[…] Marjory said. Also will add that once the cotton starts putting on fruit (editor’s note: fruit is blooms, squares and bolls — the parts of the plant that will produce cotton lint late…) the cloudy conditions that come along with the rain can be very detrimental by causing the plant […]

By: Janice Person

Janice Person — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:44:03 +0000

In reply to Kathy Bayes.

Right. As I understand it the system of color touches on two things — the whiteness/brightness of the lint (the tens position) as well as the leaf content (in the single digit spot). With micronaire though there is a premium range. People in some parts of the US tend to get docks for low mic and other areas tend to high mic…. a lot of that is about the environment — heat, humidity, length of summer, cool down at night too. 🙂

By: Kathy Bayes

Kathy Bayes — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:39:03 +0000

Micronaire is only 1/4th of the classification of cotton. It is first classes on color, I believe 11 is the best and goes all the way to the 80’s. Micronaire is next and length is next. strength is the last number given to the lint. You want the lowest numbers on the color and the highest numbers on the last two. These numbers determine the price per pound that you can get for your bales of cotton.

By: The Beauty of Five-Lock Cotton Bolls | a colorful adventure

The Beauty of Five-Lock Cotton Bolls | a colorful adventure — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:48:52 +0000

[…] locks? As I started writing this post, I realized I had forgotten to put “lock” in my working cotton dictionary. So let me explain locks for those who may not know what they are looking at. Each of these has […]

By: Cotton 101: Facts about Cotton — The Crop & Products | a colorful adventure

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:17:50 +0000

[…] facts on my blog. He seemed to enjoy several of the posts in my Cotton 101 series, especially the cotton dictionary, but I realized some quick and easy facts about cotton may be of interest […]

By: Jeana Kauffman

Jeana Kauffman — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:42:19 +0000

Hey Janice! When my husband would go to south Texas to strip cotton, I was in a restaurant in Lubbock one night, and he called me from Corpus and I asked him if the strippers were there yet! Got alot of weird looks!