Darryl W. Earnest, USDA, AMS, Cotton Program, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 2641-S, Washington, DC 20250
Module averaging is a service offered by the USDA, AMS, Cotton Program to producers and ginners whereby HVI quality data for an entire module is averaged and applied to each bale contained in that module. The paper and presentation will show data collected since 1991 and discuss the various advantages to the producer for module averaging including data accuracy, reliability, marketability, and economics. The paper will describe the module averaging service, how it works, how it is applied, the various options to the producer, and statistical results from millions of bales worth of data points from the last 16 years.
