The NCC (National Cotton Council) has announced that David Blakemore is the 2020 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year, announced during the National Cotton Ginners Association’s (NCGA) recent 2021 virtual annual meeting. The NCGA also recognised Jerry Scarborough as recipient of the NCGA’s 2020-21 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service award.
An innovative Missouri ginner known for his outstanding service and leadership to the US cotton industry, Blakemore currently chairs the NCC’s Cotton Flow Committee. Blakemore has also served on the NCC’s Quality Task Force and numerous other committees. President of Blakemore Cotton & Grain in Campbell, Blakemore has served as both NCGA president and chairman, chaired several of its committees, and continues to serve as a NCGA director. He also serves as director of the US Cotton Trust Protocol, an industrywide sustainability initiative. Blakemore served previously as a Cotton Incorporated director, as president of Cotton Producers of Missouri from 1994-1996, and as president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association in 1999. In 2011, he was named that association’s Ginner of the Year, according to NCC.The NCC (National Cotton Council) has announced that David Blakemore is the 2020 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year, announced during the National Cotton Ginners Association's (NCGA) recent 2021 virtual annual meeting. The NCGA also recognised Jerry Scarborough as recipient of the NCGA's 2020-21 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service award.#
A Texas native, Scarborough began working at the Petersburg Coop Gin in 1960 before eventually landing at Lummus Corporation where he worked in sales including selling, what was at the time, the largest cotton gin processing complex in the world to the American Cotton Growers in Crosbyton, Texas. In 1994, Scarborough co-founded Cherokee Fabrication which grew from a small metal fabrication shop in Salem, into a 140,000 square foot factory, along with two satellite manufacturing and repair centres in Lubbock, Texas and Malden, and which later included a complete line of cotton gin machinery, NCC said.
During its annual meeting, the NCGA re-elected as its 2021 officers; president, Curtis Stewart, Spade, Texas; first vice president, George LaCour, Jr., Morganza; second vice president, Gene Seale, Pima; third vice president, Richard Lindsey, Centre; and chairman, Wes Morgan, New London, North Carolina. Harrison Ashley of Cordova serves as NCGA’s executive vice president, NCC said in a media statement.
The annual NCGA award is presented to a ginner in recognition of able, efficient and faithful service to the ginning industry and continuing those principles exemplified and practiced by Horace Hayden, a former NCGA executive secretary. The Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service award honours those who have provided a career of distinguished service to the US ginning industry, NCC said in a press release.
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