10/25/2026
Buy more cotton. Wear more cotton 🌱
That round module weighs around 5,500 pounds coming out of the picker.
After it goes through the cotton gin and the fiber is separated from the seed, that one module will produce roughly 4 finished 480-pound bales of cotton lint.
To put that in perspective, that much cotton could make approximately:
👖 1,175 pairs of men's jeans
👕 7,200 men's knit shirts
🛏️ 1,700 sheets & pillowcases
🧦 32,900 pairs of socks & hosiery
🛁 2,400 cotton towels
But cotton doesn't stop at clothing.
Cotton is two crops in one: fiber AND seed. The cottonseed separated at the gin is used for livestock feed, cottonseed meal, cottonseed oil (found in cooking oils and snack foods) and hulls. Even the tiny fibers left on the seed, called linters, have uses.
Very little of that plant goes to waste.
So when we say buy more cotton, we're talking about a crop that produces fiber, food and feed, all from the same acre.
