The 2021 cotton growing season is coming to a close, a year that had a lot of ups and downs for cotton farmers and ginners.
According to Bryan Thomas of Spur Farmers Co-op, about 60 percent of area cotton has been ginned. But finishing the work hasn’t been easy, due to worker shortages.
“We are about a month and a half behind,” he said. “We’ve had a second crew for only about 10 days. Normally we would have had a second shift a lot earlier.”
As of last week, Thomas said that about 4,200 bales had been ginned last week, and there are about 300 modules in the yard still to be ginned. A module has 13 to 15 bales in it, so there’s a likely 4,000 to 4,500 more bales to be ginned in Spur.
“It’s been a good year,” Thomas said. “No crops were destroyed by weather.”
If the Spur Co-op ends up ginning 8,500- plus bales, that would be a better than average crop output. The gin has a historical chart on its Facebook page from 2002 through 2019, and 8,500-plus bales would exceed 12 of its 18 years of posted recorded history.
Thomas said he expects ginning to be wrapped up in about a month.
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