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Retiring USDA cotton ginning scientists honored

16 Jan '06
3 min read

Brashears earned bachelors and masters degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Texas Tech University. He began his career in 1961 as a research assistant at Texas A&M, and then joined USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service in College Station, Texas, as an agricultural engineer.

In 1962, he joined USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Albany, Ga., before returning to take an agricultural engineer post with USDA-ARS in Lubbock.

For 60 years NCC is helping producers, ginners, warehousers, merchants, cottonseed crushers, cooperatives and textile manufacturers in competing effectively.

National Cotton Council of America

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