43,206 cotton bales ginned at county’s gins

  • SPADE COOP GIN had turned out 6,000 bales of the 2020-year cotton crop, when a call to all the gins was made Friday morning, Nov. 6. When trucks like this one owned by Sandoval Trucking, has bales loaded all the way to the end (from 100 to 108 bales), the load is taken to the Plainview Compress, where the bales are processed further. Shown among the drivers are Jon Michael Noack, and Ben Jamin Garza HI. (Staff Photo by Joella Loworn)
    SPADE COOP GIN had turned out 6,000 bales of the 2020-year cotton crop, when a call to all the gins was made Friday morning, Nov. 6. When trucks like this one owned by Sandoval Trucking, has bales loaded all the way to the end (from 100 to 108 bales), the load is taken to the Plainview Compress, where the bales are processed further. Shown among the drivers are Jon Michael Noack, and Ben Jamin Garza HI. (Staff Photo by Joella Loworn)

Lamb County gins have turned out a combined total 43,206 bales of cotton, as of Friday morning, Nov. 6, 2020.

All of them still have modules in their yards to be ginned, and are looking forward to much more to be brought in after producers strip it from its stalks.

The Texas Producers Cooperative gins at Amherst and Sudan have ginned 13,100 bales, and still have 288 modules in the yard, and about 268 in the fields. Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers at Springlake had ginned 4,256 bales, as of Friday morning, and still had much on the gin yard, and in the field to go get.

Olton Ag Producers gin at Olton has turned out a total of 19,850 bales, with many more yet to do.

The Spade Coop Gin had turned out 6,000 bales by Friday morning, and still had 350 modules on the gin yard, and many more to go get from the fields.