Deere & Company boosts cotton efforts

Resource, Mar 1999

Research to keep Texas' biggest crop on the cutting edge got some help in January with a $100,000 donation from Deere & Company to Texas A&M University. "The cotton industry and cotton producers are an extremely important business to John Deere." says Pat Pinkston, operations manager for cotton products at John Deere's Des Moines Works. "Cotton producers have relied on John Deere equipment and supported our company with equipment purchases for many years."

The funding will help Texas A&M and John Deere continue its history of cooperation in developing products for the cotton industry, Pinkston adds.

ASAE member James Gilley, head of the agricultural engineering department at Texas A&M, says, "We look forward to even wider participation in this collaborative effort to establish an engineering center of excellence in cotton engineering in our department."

Gilley says scientists and staff from Texas A&M's agricultural engineering department have collaborated on projects with the cotton industry for more than 50 years.