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TCGA Gin Show: Year Two Of The Cotton Belt Gin Connection Editor’s note: The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association will host its 117th Gin Show April 3-4 in Lubbock at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Once again, the goal is to reach out to gins all across the Cotton Belt and enhance the show experience for both attendees and exhibitors. TCGA recently described its rebranding efforts and talked about some of the details for this year’s event. Here is what they had to say:
year” opportunity. We were happy to see that many of our friends throughout the belt came to see us in Texas last year. Hopefully, many will join us this year in Lubbock for our 117th annual meeting and cotton trade show. Thanks to our fellow regional cotton gin associations for sharing their membership addresses, allowing us to advertise our event to all gins. Each year, we have around
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Last year, we re-branded the show with a new logo and broadened our outreach to ginners across the Cotton Belt. For years, we have delivered a show focused on the cotton ginning industry. Being the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association, we focused our efforts here at home rather than the entire Cotton Belt. Our focus will continue to be Texas, but we want this show to be for everyone. Since we have the only show in the world where the focus is cotton ginning, we wanted to be sure everyone across cotton belt was officially invited to the show. We did this through a national mailer that went to every gin in the United States. Our “cotton gin focused” show is unique, and we want everyone involved in cotton to take advantage of this “once a
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