Did You Know?

• A bale of cotton weighs about 500 pounds.
• U.S. textile mills will spin almost 3 million bales of cotton this year. That's enough cotton to make more than 600 million pairs of men's jeans and more than 2 billion men's dress shirts.
• Once cotton is harvested, it is stored in modules, which hold 13 to 15 bales.
• Modules are stored in the field or on the gin yard until the cotton is ginned.
• One bale of cotton can make:
• 215 Jeans
• 249 Bed Sheets
• 2,104 Boxer Shorts

Source:
National Cotton Council