Cotton Incorporated has posted a new report titled “Prevention of Plastic Contamination when Handling Cotton Modules” to its producer-directed Web site, Cotton Cultivated. This document provides growers, module handlers and ginners recommendations on handling round modules from the field to the gin with a goal of eliminating plastic contamination in U.S. cotton. The report begins by stating that the U.S. cotton industry has a long history of producing contaminationfree cotton, and there is a need to preserve that reputation. In the last three years, USDA Classing Offices have been finding plastic in samples that likely originated from round module wrap. Therefore, to maintain the ...