How Cotton And Auto-x Relate
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I get e-mails from our local autocross mailing list, this is the latest one (it's called the Dixie Region for SCCA):
This is because the race site is in Bainbridge, GA. It was a WWII practice airstrip, now there's an industrial cotton gin at the end of it, and they store cotton on the strip. When it's gone, there's about 2" of cotton stuck to the asphalt, and the dixie scca group has to hire a street sweeper to clean it off.
I just think it's funny.
Well only in the Dixie Region can you find a post about the
agricultural agenda in relation to auto-x. Sounds likely the course
may be inundated with piles of cotton again before the season ends.
LOL
Georgia's 2005 cotton crop is forecast to average 762 pounds of lint
per harvested acre, 16 pounds more than last month, and 88 pounds
more than last year. Acreage expected to be harvested this fall is
estimated at 1,210,000 acres, down 70,000 acres from last year, but
up 20,000 acres from last month. Production is estimated at 1.92
million bales, 7 percent more than last year's 1.80 million bales.
Cotton has benefitted from the overall good growing conditions this
summer. As of September 4, 73 percent of the cotton was rated good
to excellent, 23 percent was rated fair, and only 4 percent was rated
poor to very poor.
All cotton production is forecast at 22.3 million 480-pound bales, up
5 percent from the August forecast but 4 percent below last year's
production. Yield is expected to average 782 pounds per acre, 34
pounds above last month. If realized, both the yield and production
will be the second highest on record. The September harvested area is
expected to total 13.7 million acres, up less than 1 percent from
August and 5 percent above 2004. Producers in the Great Plains,
California, Georgia, New Mexico, and Louisiana are expecting higher
yields than last month. Yield expectations in Texas increased due to
excellent growing conditions in the High Plains area.
agricultural agenda in relation to auto-x. Sounds likely the course
may be inundated with piles of cotton again before the season ends.
LOL
Georgia's 2005 cotton crop is forecast to average 762 pounds of lint
per harvested acre, 16 pounds more than last month, and 88 pounds
more than last year. Acreage expected to be harvested this fall is
estimated at 1,210,000 acres, down 70,000 acres from last year, but
up 20,000 acres from last month. Production is estimated at 1.92
million bales, 7 percent more than last year's 1.80 million bales.
Cotton has benefitted from the overall good growing conditions this
summer. As of September 4, 73 percent of the cotton was rated good
to excellent, 23 percent was rated fair, and only 4 percent was rated
poor to very poor.
All cotton production is forecast at 22.3 million 480-pound bales, up
5 percent from the August forecast but 4 percent below last year's
production. Yield is expected to average 782 pounds per acre, 34
pounds above last month. If realized, both the yield and production
will be the second highest on record. The September harvested area is
expected to total 13.7 million acres, up less than 1 percent from
August and 5 percent above 2004. Producers in the Great Plains,
California, Georgia, New Mexico, and Louisiana are expecting higher
yields than last month. Yield expectations in Texas increased due to
excellent growing conditions in the High Plains area.
This is because the race site is in Bainbridge, GA. It was a WWII practice airstrip, now there's an industrial cotton gin at the end of it, and they store cotton on the strip. When it's gone, there's about 2" of cotton stuck to the asphalt, and the dixie scca group has to hire a street sweeper to clean it off.
I just think it's funny.
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