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A co-operative of local cotton growers have got green signal from the Murrumbidgee Shire Council to build a $24 million cotton gin. It has been given permission to produce 150,000 bales of lint cotton.
The state-of-the-art facility will be capable of producing 60 bales per hour and have the capacity to boost its output to 100 bales per hour if demand increases, putting it on par with the two biggest gins in Australia.