Fred Couch of Rabbit Ridge Gin in Lepanto, Arkansas has been getting some great results. More details will be released throughout the season. So far he and his ginners have enjoyed running them. Here is what Fred had to say.

"If they didn't do anything other than maintain the status quo on turnout, fiber quality, and capacity they would be worth running just for the ease of ginning. They just run all day long without us having to mess with them."

October 30, 2003 - Fred Couch, Manager of Rabbit Ridge Gin

"Things here at Rabbit Ridge are running great. Tests by DP&L showed 7% residual lint and only 6% mechanical damage on our seed. I don't know about seed damage, but last year's seed at Rabbit Ridge tested an average of 13.5% residual lint.

With our press we are limited on capacity but last week from Thursday to Thursday we ginned 3,838 bales. That may not sound like a lot to you but in the past 7 years we have had only one week that we ginned over 3,500 bales. So, to us we are excited.

We are experiencing some very significant improvements in fiber quality. If you add up the total percentage of fiber above 35 staple length Rabbit Ridge averaged 2 percentage points above the state average in the 2001 season, and 4 points above in the 2002 season. Now WE ARE RUNNING AN AVERAGE OF 15 PERCENTAGE POINTS ABOVE THE STATE AVERAGE.

I'm proud to say that we have always done the best job we can of ginning our customers cotton but the Power Roll has allowed us to do better than we ever could before."