Terminator II

Dr. Paul A. Funk

USDA Agricultural Research Service
Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Lab

PO Box 578
Mesilla Park, NM 88047

(575) 526-6381


Ginning Lab Mission Statement With Objectives

Environmental Protection (Objective IV)

Thermal Defoliation Preparing for Harvest without Chemicals
Emissions Control Modeling and Testing Dust Cyclones

Instrumentation (Objective II)

Detecting Contamination with Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Sensing Mass Flow of Seed Cotton with Air

Renewable Energy (Objective III)

Distributed Energy from Cotton Gin and Dairy Wastes
Liquid Fuel and Quality Feed from Cotton Seed

Saw and Roller Ginning (Objective II)

Ginning Naturally Colored Cottons
Treating Sticky Cotton

Mechanization (Objective I)

Harvesting Green Chile
Implanting Driptube in Turfgrass


Solar Cooking (Graduate Studies)

International Test Standard


USDA-ARS photo by Peggy Greb.
Last Updated 05 February 2009.
Paul.Funk@ars.usda.gov