National Cotton Ginners Association Elects Seale, Honors Stewart and Holt
February 19, 2023 The National Cotton Ginners Association elected its leaders for 2023 and awarded the organization’s highest honors during its recent annual meeting in Dallas, TX.
2023 Officers
Gene Seale (Photo: NCC)
Elected as NCGA’s 2023 officers are:
- President – Gene Seale, Pima, AZ
- First Vice President – Richard Lindsey, Centre, AL
- Second Vice President – Larry Black, Roscoe, TX
- Third Vice President – Brad Williams, Burlison, TN.
George LaCour of Morganza, LA, who served as NCGA president in 2022, will serve as NCGA Chairman. Harrison Ashley, Cordova, TN, remains NCGA’s Executive Vice President.
Seale, currently the general manager of the Glenbar Gin in Pima, has been active in the Arizona Cotton Ginners Association and served as its president from 2018-2022. He has served on numerous NCGA committees and subcommittees, including chairing its Safety and Labor Committee in 2022. He also served on multiple National Cotton Council (NCC) committees and as a NCC director in 2022.
Honors
Curtis Stewart, a long-time ginner who has provided outstanding service and leadership to the U.S. cotton industry, is the 2022 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year. The annual NCGA award is presented to a ginner in recognition of able, efficient and faithful service to the ginning industry, and for continuing those principles exemplified and practiced by Horace Hayden, a former NCGA executive secretary.
Curtis Stewart (Photo: NCC)
General manager of Spade Cooperative Gin in Spade, TX, Stewart has provided dedicated service and leadership to the industry during his career through participation in multiple organizations. He served a two-year term as NCGA president and is the outgoing NCGA chairman. He is a past president of Southern Cotton Ginners, Planters Cotton Oil Mill, and Dumas Cotton Warehouse, among others. Stewart has served on multiple NCC committees and as a NCC director and director of its export promotions arm, Cotton Council International. He also is a past chairman of the Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee.
Dr. Greg Holt, Research Leader at the USDA South Plains Ginning Laboratory in Lubbock, TX, is the recipient of the NCGA’s 2022-23 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award, which honors individuals who have provided a career of distinguished service to the U.S. ginning industry.
Dr. Greg Holt (Photo: NCC)
Over his 24-year career with USDA, Holt has been involved in countless research projects that added to the U.S. ginning industry’s success, including post-harvest processing of seed cotton, cottonseed, and cotton gin by-products such as hydro-mulch and fuel pellets. He was also involved in development of the Power Roll Gin stand design, generation of new particulate matter emissions data that has been used to improve the permitting process for gins, and the successful design and testing of an improved mechanical delinter that efficiently removes residual lint from ginned seed.
More recently, his work has focused on designing detection and removal systems for removing costly plastic contaminants from seed cotton.
Based on information received from NCGA
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