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Dwayne Alford, center, is the recipient of the 2017 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year award. Corecipients of the National Cotton Ginners Association’s 2017-18 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award are Dale Thompson, left, and Ross Rutherford. The awards were recently presented at the 2018 NCGA Annual Meeting.
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Dwayne Alford’s Accomplishments Over the past 14 years, Alford’s professionalism and integrity helped advance the ginning industry. He was a graduate of the National Cotton Council’s 2007 Cotton Leadership Program. Alford also served as an NCC ginner delegate, as an NCC director and chaired multiple NCC committees, among them the Research and Education Program Committee and the Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee. A former president of the Arizona Cotton Ginners Association, he also served as NCGA’s president in 2014 and chaired several of its committees and subcommittees. TWITTER TWITTER : @C : @C OTTON OTTON FARMING FARMING
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Dwayne Alford, former manager and vice president of YUCO Gin, and who provided several years of dedicated service to the U.S. cotton industry, is the 2017 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year. The annual National Cotton Ginners Association’s award is presented to a ginner in recognition of: 1) able, efficient and faithful service to the ginning industry and 2) continuing those principles exemplified and practiced by Horace Hayden, a former NCGA executive secretary. Alford, who received the award at NCGA’s recent 2018 annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Arizona before beginning his agriculture career in 1991. Since joining YUCO Gin in 2003, he has made several cost-cutting improvements to that operation.