Excerpt from Utilization of Discount Cottons in Major End Uses
The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Southern Marketing and Nutrition Research Division in New Orleans, La. Initiated a comprehensive research program to develop improved textile blending and processing techniques that would enable producing commercial quality fabrics from discount cotton. The research on medium-staple cotton was conducted by the Division’s Cotton Mechanical Laboratory, and on short-staple cotton by the Textile Research Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, under usda contract.
Three years after the program was started in 1968, the work was completed. In the interim, the substantial surplus of discount cotton in the government loan and private stocks has largely disappeared because of short crop years and changing technology. This situation may well be temporary, as environmental conditions and the ever-changing cycle of textile requirements could again result in surpluses of discount cottons.
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