Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in Nueces and San Patricio counties will be hosting a free webinar from 8:30 a.m. to noon May 6 to discuss practices both growers and ginners can implement to help the industry address plastic contamination in cotton. “Plastic contamination is one of the greatest problems for cotton producers,” said Jason Ott, AgriLife Extension agent, Nueces County. “It affects every segment of the cotton industry and the war against plastic contamination has been going on for some time.” An International Textile Manufacturers Federation survey from 2015 estimated contamination-related losses to cotton to be as great as $200 ...