Lint Cleaning Stripper-Harvested Cotton for Maximizing Producer Net Returns

Potential for Escape of Live Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) into Cottonseed, Motes, and Cleaned Lint at the Cotton Gin

“…Similarly, we found no boll weevil survivors in the lint after passage through a saw-type lint cleaner. Although there is evidence that net proÞt often is maximized by using only a single lint cleaner (Bennett et al 1997, passing the lint through two cleaners is the ginning industry norm (Mangialardi et al 1994, Anthony 2000, and even three lint cleaners are occasionally used (Ethridge et al 1995). Thus, the chances of a boll weevil surviving lint cleaning in most gins will be much closer to zero than to the p u calculated for our sample size.…”