Cotton Judging Practice Test Questions

Originally used to refer to cotton grown on raised lands not prone to flooding. Now refers to short and medium staple cottons.

• Small Cotton

• Pima Cotton

• Country Damage

• Acala Cotton

Unginned, picked cotton

• Dead Cotton

• Cotton Plant

• Cotton Bolls

• Seed Cotton

An extreme form of immature cotton, having a thin fibre wall. Can result from disease, pest attack or a foreshortened ripening period.

• Jute

• Leaf Grade

• Bad Cotton

• Dead Cotton

cotton grown using mainly water provided by the natural cycle of rainfall rather than artificial irrigation. Also known as dryland cotton.

• Dryland Cotton

• Highland Cotton

• Wetland cotton

• Disneyland Cotton

Anything that is not part of the cotton plant

• Alien

• Foreign matter

• Dirt

• Boll

The size of an individual cotton fiber taken in cross-section

• Microscopic

• Massive

• Tiny

• Micronaire

Describes the leaf or "trash" content of cotton lint

• Leaf Grade

• School Grade

• Trash Grade

• Color Grade

A coarse, brown fiber from the stalk of a bast plant.

• Stem

• Flowering branch

• Jute

• Stalk

High Volume Instrument testing. Systems by which high speed bale by bale testing can be attained. Bales are tested for micronaire, length, uniformity, strength, elongation, color and trash content

• SAE

• FFA

• AET

• HVI

the ratio of lint to seed cotton produced by the ginning process

• Cotton outrun

• Lint outrun

• Seed outrun

• Ginning outrun