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Web - Based Resources
The applied nature of many of the
Department's research programs has led to the
development of a number of web-based resources that
provide valuable information to agricultural producers,
agricultural extension personnel, cotton ginners, and
others. Web-based resources have been developed to
assist agricultural producers in the calculation of
cotton prices, evaluation of cotton harvest costs,
cotton variety selection, and calculation of production
costs. A web-based resource has been developed to
assist cotton ginners in selecting ginning processes to
optimize cotton quality.
Cotton Price
Calculator
The Cotton Price Calculator estimates cotton prices
based on quality attribute premiums and discounts for
the Texas/Oklahoma cotton markets. The base price
and quality attribute premiums and discounts are
obtained from the Daily Price Estimation System (DPES),
which is maintained and operated by the Cotton Economics
Research Institute. The DPES is a computerized
price analysis system that uses an econometric model to
analyze producer cotton prices and estimate quality
premiums and discounts for the West Texas and East
Texas/Oklahoma cotton marketing regions. The
Cotton Price Calculator allows the estimation of the
price for a specific bale of cotton based on the DPES.
Go to the Cotton Price Calculator
Cotton Harvest Cost
Calculator
The Cotton Harvest Cost Calculator allows cotton
producers to evaluate harvest costs for specific
harvesting equipment configurations or to compare costs
of alternative harvesting equipment configurations.
The Cotton Harvest Cost Calculator was developed using
results from a research project that compared cost of
alternative cotton harvesting systems in Texas.
Go to the Cotton
Harvest Cost Calculator
Cotton Wizard Variety Selection
Program
The Cotton Wizard Variety Selection Program aids cotton
producers in selecting cotton varieties that will
provide the greatest economic return. The model
uses lint and seed components from various cotton
variety trials in a variety selection model that
provides valuable information to cotton producers and
breeders by simultaneously considering complex agronomic
and economic characteristics of a group of varieties
Go to the Cotton
Wizard Variety Selection Program
Production Cost Calculator
The Production Cost Calculator assists crop producers in
determining the true costs
of production for enterprises within a farming
operation. Knowing the true production provides
better information to make sound production, financial,
and marketing decisions. The Production Cost Calculator
is an information based management tool that can be used
in conjunction with the present record system in
calculating their true production costs. The Production
Cost Calculator is based on Standardized Performance
Analysis (SPA) methods and criteria.
Go to the
Production Cost Calculator
GINQUAL
The GINQUAL is a cotton processing simulation model that
was developed to evaluate the effects of gin operation
parameters, such as, drying, cleaning and ginning on
fiber quality factors. The simulation model
estimates cotton quality as it passes through the
various sequenced of gin machinery used to process
stripper harvested cotton. The GINQUAL program can
assists ginners in optimizing the ginning process.
Go to the
GINQUAL Program
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