Aflatoxin in Seed Cotton During Short-Term Trailer Storage
| dc.creator | Griffin, Anselm C. Jr | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:58:00Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:29:12Z | |
| dc.description | Three experimental harvesting and storage treatments were applied to seed cotton in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta to determine their effectiveness in preventing the development of aflatoxins during the period between harvesting and ginning. The experiments were conducted using full-scale production and ginning equipment. The experimental harvesting and storage treatments were (1) to harvest wet with dew and store without drying, (2) to harvest wet with dew and gin-dry before storage, and (3) to harvest after the dew had evaporated and store without drying. The storage period for all treatments was 7 days. Each treatment was replicated five times in each of two successive crop years. Development of aflatoxins in cottonseeds during seed-cotton storage may be minimized by ginning the picked-wet cotton by the end of the third day after harvesting and by ginning the field-dried cotton by the end of the fourth clay. Although the gin-drying treatment was successful in controlling aflatoxin production in stored cotton, it was considered impractical as a cotton-production process. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.158068 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/158068/files/tb1552.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/158068 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/588846 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/158068 | |
| dc.title | Aflatoxin in Seed Cotton During Short-Term Trailer Storage | |
| dc.type | Text |