TCGA Gin Members - Please click on the link below for information on the 2018 Summer Membership Meeting. Click here for Summer Membership Meeting Notice (Gin Member Letter) The meeting will be held June 24 - 26, 2018 at the Omni Frisco Hotel, which adjoins the Star Event Center and is the home of the [...]
TCGA's 111th Annual Meeting & Cotton Trade Show will take place April 5 & 6 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. We are right at three weeks away! Click here for all gin show related registration forms Attention Golfers: We currently have around twenty teams registered for the golf tournament. We normally have sixty teams [...]
Bill Thomas has let us know that summer pricing is rising significantly for 2018, due to three large coal plants shutting down in ERCOT. If you are in ERCOT, buy your energy on the open market, and do not already have a contract that goes through the summer, you should probably get in touch with [...]
USDA Released the following statement on Saturday: USDA Helps Cotton Producers Maintain, Expand Domestic Market (MEMPHIS, TN, March 3, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced at the 66th Annual Mid-South Farm and Gin Show the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking action to assist cotton producers through a Cotton [...]
So far, we are in communication with nine gins that have been inspected by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor this year. If you have been inspected by DOL this year, and have not communicated with us, please let us know right away. Hopefully, DOL has completed their inspections at this [...]
The Trust has sent us two additional safety alerts which we thought should be shared with all TCGA members. Please take a minute to review the publication below, and be sure to reinforce these issues with all of your workers during your next safety meeting at the gin. [...]
Inspectors from the Wage and Hour division of the Department of Labor are making the rounds again this year. So far they have visited seven gins that we know of. If you receive an inspection from DOL, please contact your association office as soon as possible. Last year we had twelve gins inspected. With the [...]
As has been the case for many years, February 1, 2018 is that date when you need to complete and post your 2017 OSHA 300A form. This form has to remain posted from February 1 until April 30. This form, as well as the instructions for filling it out and posting, is available by clicking [...]
As the ginning season in West Texas continues, we have seen two additional lint cleaner accidents which we thought should be shared with all TCGA members. Please take a minute to review the publication below, and be sure to reinforce these issues with all of your workers during your next safety meeting at the [...]
The FDA has announced that it does not intend to enforce certain provisions in four of the rules that implement their Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). One of these provisions directly affects cotton gins. TCGA and other cotton organizations have been arguing for some time now that gins do not provide any food related processing activities [...]
