Blakemore, Scarborough Honored by NCGA

David Blakemore, an innovative Missouri ginner who has provided outstanding service and leadership to the U.S. cotton industry, and Jerry Scarborough, a long-time member of the U.S. ginning industry, received the National Cotton Ginners Association’s (NCGA) highest honors during the organization’s recent 2021 virtual annual meeting.

David Blakemore

Blakemore was named the 2020 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year – an annual award presented to a ginner in recognition of able, efficient and faithful service to the ginning industry and continuing the principles exemplified and practiced by Horace Hayden, a former NCGA executive secretary.

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President of Blakemore Cotton & Grain in Campbell, MO, Blakemore has served as both NCGA president and chairman, chaired several of its committees, and continues to serve as a NCGA director. He has been a National Cotton Council (NCC) director, served on the NCC’s Quality Task Force and numerous other committees, and currently chairs the NCC’s Cotton Flow Committee. He also serves as director of the U.S. 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.

Jerry Scarborough

Scarborough was the recipient of the NCGA’s 2020-21 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award, which honors those who have provided a career of distinguished service to the U.S. ginning industry.

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A Texas native, Scarborough began working at the Petersburg Coop Gin in 1960 before joining Lummus Corporation where he worked in sales including involvement with the American Cotton Growers gin in Crosbyton, TX, and the Adams Gin Company in Arkansas. He moved to Lummus headquarters in Columbus, GA in 1974, where he eventually was named vice president, Sales, Engineering and Marketing for all Lummus operations. His duties took him to Russia, Turkey, Israel, several countries in Africa, Ecuador, Australia, Brazil and China.

In 1994, Scarborough co-founded Cherokee Fabrication, which grew from a small metal fabrication shop in Salem, AL, into a 140,000 square foot factory with satellite manufacturing and repair centers in Lubbock, TX and Malden, MO, plus a complete line of cotton gin machinery.

Scarborough spent considerable time meeting with engineering students at Texas A&M, serving as a mentor to many who pursued careers in the ginning sector, including several previous recipients of the NCGA’s Distinguished Service Award.

Based on information provided by the National Cotton Ginners Association

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