 Baling Cotton at Gins: Practices and Costs -- Flat, Standard, High Density BalesJ. D. Campbell and R. C. Soxman No 311282, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Following World War II, there has been a modest, yet slowly increasing, adoption of new designs of bale presses by ginners, particularly in the West. These newer types of presses turn out bales that are as dense or denser than the standard density bales compressed at warehouses. By the 1957-58 season, about 2 percent of active gins were operating such presses. That season this small group of gins handled approximately 5 percent of the entire crop, a proportion greater than achieved by the round bale package (now abandoned) at its peak of popularity. Aim of the study reported on in this publication was to evaluate the new gin bale presses for the cotton industry on the basis of costs and problems and practices their use may bring, and to investigate attitudes of manufacturers on density and types of bales. Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:311282 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC. |
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