The Virginia Agriculture Industry
Creating an economic impact of $70 billion and proving more than 334,000 jobs in the society,
Virginia Agriculture production is among one of the most diverse in the U.S. and the largest industry
for Virginia itself (VDACS 2017). The agriculture industry includes not only field productions but
also processing and manufacturing industries such as food and beverages processing, textiles, wood
products, pulp and paper mills, among others, and due to the link with agriculture, changes in this
latter affects in various degrees the whole state industry (Rephann 2017). The tour held on August
22nd to 24th provided the opportunity to explore and get familiar with the industry related to
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important but more toward where more impression or interest was brought due to the activities
performed there.
Commonwealth Cotton Gin Tour
Commonwealth Gin is a 3rd generation family company, and during the tour the facility located
Windsor, VA. was visited. Chris was the person who toured the group through the facilities. He
mentioned that, in early years, the family was in the business of grains, but they decided to search
for different horizons and built something different than grain productions. They were tired of
producing grains, and in the process of looking for a different crops and opportunities they decided
to start cotton production in Virginia in 1991, later, in 1992, the Commonwealth Cotton Gin
company was started, and currently they possess two facilities, that although in some period one
facility was not running, four years ago, they started to run it again.
The company perform four main activities, the first one is ginning, which consist in separate the
seed from the cotton fiber with the use of a machine, and after that, marketing is an important
service provided to their customers, because the company act as a binding point between the
growers and the buyers, which means that they help to seel the cotton.
Warehouse, this is another of the four main activities that
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