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| Thursday, January 11, 2007: 1:25 PM-5:15 PM | |||
| Grand Ballroom D (Sheraton New Orleans) | |||
| Cotton Ginning - Thursday Afternoon Session | |||
| Presiding: | Russell Kuhnhenn, Buckeye, AZ | ||
| 1:25 PM | Welcoming Remarks | ||
| 1:30 PM | Quality of the 2006-2007 U.S. Cotton Crop   Robbie Seals, USDA/AMS/Cotton Program, Bartlett, TN | ||
| 1:45 PM | Future Outlook for AMS Cotton Program Darryl W. Earnest, USDA, AMS, Cotton Program, Washington, DC | ||
| 2:00 PM | Bale Moisture Estimation With Multiple Readings from a Side Richard K. Byler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS and David D. McAlister, Uster Technologies, Inc., Knoxville, TN | ||
| 2:15 PM | Examination of Some Currently Available Portable Cotton Bale Moisture Meters, 2006 Richard K. Byler1, Kevin Baker2, S. Ed Hughs2, Mike Buser3, Greg Holt3, Mathew G. Pelletier3 and Jeffery A. Carroll4, (1)USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS, (2)USDA-ARS-Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM, (3)USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit, Lubbock, TX, (4)USDA ARS Livestock Issues Research Unit, Lubbock, TX | ||
| 2:30 PM | Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Cotton Module Condition: A First Look J. Alex Thomasson1, S. Ed Hughs2, Ruixiu Sui1 and Steven J. Thomson3, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)USDA-ARS-Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM, (3)USDA, ARS, Application and Production Technology Research Unit, Stoneville, MS | ||
| 2:45 PM | Moisture Content Throughout the Ginning Process C. Kyle Shofner, Kipp W. Julius and Frederick M. Shofner, Schaffner Technologies, Inc, Knoxville, TN | ||
| 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 PM | Microwave Moisture Sensing of Wet Bales Mathew Pelletier, USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX | ||
| 3:45 PM | Cirrus Cotton Conditioner: New Methodology for Moisture Restoration Prior to Baling Mark D. Cory, Cherokee Fabrication Company, Inc, Salem, AL | ||
| 4:00 PM | Seed Cotton Moisture Restoration in a Commercial Gin, Initial Data Richard K. Byler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS | ||
| 4:15 PM | A New Grid Bar Design for a Modified Cylinder Cleaner Sanh Le, Agriculture Research Service-USDA, Stoneville, MS | ||
| 4:30 PM | Impact of a Saw-type Lint Cleaner Operation on Fiber Quality Sanh Le, Agriculture Research Service-USDA, Stoneville, MS | ||
| 4:45 PM | Effects of Harvesting and Seed-cotton Cleaning on a Cotton with a Fragile Seed Coat Carlos B. Armijo, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM, Kevin D. Baker, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, SW Cotton Ginning Research Lab, Mesilla Park, NM, S. Ed Hughs, USDA-ARS-Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Mesilla Park, NM, Edward M. Barnes, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC and Marvis N. Gillum, USDA-ARS, Mesilla Park, NM | ||
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn | ||
| Sponsor: | Cotton Ginning Conference | ||
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