730,000+!: Cotton bales near 3/4 million mark as season winds down

From Staff Reports 

The ginning season may be winding down for 2021, but it has set more and more records daily.

The season set the all time record two weeks ago, shattering the 2016 record of 631,181 bales.

As of press time (Feb. 1), the count was 731,926, nearing 750,000 bales. It remains to be seen if it will hit that milestone.

New Home is the only gin still ginning in the area.

WesTex finished Saturday and Idalou finished in the  past few days.

The season started in early October.

Current bale count as of Feb. 1 is WesTex Coop finishing at 184,460 baled; Acuff-McClung finishing its year at 48,378; Texas Star Co-op finishing the year at 137,544; New Home Co-op at 89,722; Lubbock Cotton Growers finishing at 193,246 and Idalou Co-op finished at 78,576.

For more information, please read the Thursday edition of The Slatonite.