How much does a cotton gin typically cost?

cotton lint. Click here to open this animation full screen. But patenting an invention and making a profit from it are two different things. read more

With the cotton gin slavery as an institution was extended about 70 years. In 1790 there were 700,000 slaves, and 156,000 bales of cotton, by 1860 there were 4 million. I think there was plenty of profit there to do this with paid employees, but that did not happen. read more

The 2010 cotton crop produced 17.6 million running bales from 10.7 million acres and was ginned by 700 operating gins, averaging 25,000 bales per gin. “Gins in the Southeast, Mid-South, and Southwest had relatively low dryer fuel costs in 2010,” Valco says. read more