@article{Shaw:329882,
      recid = {329882},
      author = {Shaw, Dale L.  and Ethridge, Don E. and McArthur, W. C.},
      title = {Cotton Ginning, Handling, and Marketing in the Western  Cotton Region},
      address = {[1978-03]},
      number = {1485-2022-2202},
      series = {CED Working Paper [26-78]},
      pages = {64},
      year = {1978},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the paper:  Cotton ginning,  warehousing/compressing, and merchandising services are  quite similar across the three areas of Arizona and  California (figure 1).  Production and associated services  in the region tend to be concentrated in the large valleys.   In contrast to the Southwest Irrigated Cotton (SWIC)  region where production is widely scattered, there are only  a few scattered isolated production areas mostly in the  Imperial and Mid-Arizona area.  High yields and uniform  quality characterize production in the irrigated areas of  the West.  Cotton ginning facilities range from smaller and  older standard gins to the modern highly automated gins.   The volume of cotton handled per gin, averaging about  10,000 bales in 1974, tends to be larger in the Far West  than in other regions.  The capacity of gins in the region  now averages about 12 bales per hour.   Ginners charged  about $30.00 per bale in 1975 for ginning and wrapping.  In  the Far West, most cotton bales are placed in open gin  yards after ginning, and then moved to a warehouse by  commercial truckers within two weeks.  Warehouse charges  for three months (including storage, receiving,  compression, and shipping) averaged about $9.00 per bale in  1975.  There are several cotton market outlets in the Far  West, including central market firms, local merchants,  salaried and commission buyers, mill buyers, line  companies, and gin organizations.   A California based,  producer cooperative, Calcot, is the principal market  outlet in the region.  This firm provides nearly 60 percent  of the warehouse space in the Far West, and markets about a  million bales of cotton annually for its 3,700 grower  members.  Historically, over 70 percent of the Arizona and  California cotton crop is exported, mainly through West  coast ports where containers are used for most of the  shipments.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329882},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329882},
}