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2020 Bale Packaging Specifications Approved William Beam, U.S. Department of Agriculture deputy administrator for Farm Programs, notified the National Cotton Council that the Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee 2020 specification recommendations for cotton bale packaging materials are approved for Commodity Credit Corporation loan program purposes. The 2020 specifications are identical to the specifications for the previous year’s crop except for the following revisions: ¡ Removed all references to Cold Rolled High Tensile Steel Strapping. ¡ Updated North American Free Trade Agreement references to U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. ¡ Added light blue as an approved color for woven polypropylene. At the JCIBPC February meeting, the Committee approved adding a color to the woven polypropylene bagging specifications. The discussion that led to this decision was based on some mills’ perception that “invisible” contamination comes from damaged woven polypropylene bagging when the tapes have fibrillated. To detect contamination in fiber, mills are installing cam-
era-based detection and separation systems in their cleaning rooms. These systems use color-sensing technology to detect and then separate contaminants from cotton fiber. Some mills have expressed a preference for a more detectable color because the spectra of previously approved white and golden bagging colors are very similar to cotton fiber spectra and thus, if present, can be difficult for the camera systems to detect. JCIBPC staff consulted with scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Lubbock Ginning Laboratory to determine the most detectable color compared to cotton fiber for
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