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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.
Outgoing NCGA President David Blakemore says one of Alford’s lasting accomplishments was the push to adopt a unique logo for bale packaging that would allow U.S. bales to be distinguishable in foreign warehouses. In just a few years’ time, the U.S. cotton industry adopted the “COTTON USA” logo, which now is being used on most U.S. cotton bales.
Rutherford And Thompson Honored Blakemore also recognized Lummus Corp. employee Ross Rutherford and NCC staffer Dale Thompson as co-recipients of the NCGA’s 2017-18 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award. This award honors those who have provided a career of distinguished service to the U.S. ginning industry. Rutherford, a Texas native, went to work for Lummus Industries as a field engineer in Lubbock, Texas, after earning his bachelor of science degree in agricultural engineering from Texas A&M University in 1983. After working in various positions with the company, including in Fresno, California, and in Columbus, Geogia, Rutherford returned to Lubbock where he currently serves as product general manager. In that position, he oversees the gin machinery product line regarding size and scope of product offerings, including product features and options and costing/pricing for sales. A long-time member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Rutherford also teaches classes at the NCGA’s three annual ginner schools and provides technical support and instruction for the schools’ continuing education level classes. Thompson, who was raised on a cotton farm near
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Bula, Texas, earned a degree in mechanized agriculture at Texas Tech University. After farming and custom cotton harvesting for several years, he joined the NCC as a Texas field representative in 1984. In 2001, he became the manager of Marketing and Processing Technology in the NCC’s Technical Services Department in Memphis. In that role, he has provided staffing for the NCC’s Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee, its Cotton Flow Committee and its Packaging and Distribution Committee. Thompson also has helped coordinate the seed late 3/7/14 3:26 NCC’s PM Page 1 cotton and lint contamination prevention efforts.
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During its annual meeting, the NCGA elected its 2018 officers: president – Stanley Creelman, Tulare, California; first vice president – Wes Morgan, New London, North Carolina; second vice president – Curtis Stewart, Spade, Texas; third vice president – George LaCour Jr., Morganza, Louisiana; and chairman – David Blakemore, Campbell, Missouri. Harrison Ashley, Cordova, Tennessee, serves as NCGA’s executive vice president. The National Cotton Council provided this information.
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