HUSA Jun 17 2026 - Slick Sanders

Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. Let's see how Slick's doing with the wheat rat report.   How are things down there?   "We're through with pretty much all the milo harvest and corn harvest and basically almost all the cottons out of the field. They're still ginning on it. That's what we're doing right now, just hauling cottonseed."   You pick cotton, do you?   "No, sir. We just haul the cottonseed from the cotton gins to the oatmeal. Then they take the oil out of the seed? Yes, sir. They press that seed and get the oil out and they get more lint off the seed and they turn that cottonseed into cottonseed meal and then they take the cottonseed hulls.   That's all for cattle, you know, and so they use a lot of the cottons. So that cottonseed meal, that's a protein supplement, is that right? I believe so. I mean, they mix it in feed and the hulls as well and they feed raw cottonseed to cattle.   That's good protein feed too. So do you have any idea what the protein content is?   "No, I don't. I really don't. We just haul the seed to the oatmeal basically and then a lot of seed goes to dairies and flat storage, you know, to sell out later in the summer to dairies and feedlots and what have you. I got an idea that the protein in the meal will be a little bit higher than in the seed because of what they've taken out of the seed. Well, it's my understanding too, and they take the meat out of the cottonseed and they do something, cook it, I guess they make flour out of it or what, you know, but of course the oil, you can actually buy the oil from the oatmeal there for cooking oil."   Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.