Greg Holt is an Agricultural Engineer and Research Leader of the Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit in Lubbock, Texas. He completed undergraduate and master’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Holt joined ARS in 1998, and leads a team of engineers addressing issues facing cotton breeders, producers, ginners, and spinners. The five main areas of research for the Unit include: 1) Preservation of fiber quality, 2) Cotton harvester improvements, 3) Ginning processes and machinery development, 4) Quantification of particulate matter emissions from agricultural sources, 5) Value-added processing of agricultural substrates. Plastic contamination detection and removal is a component of the ginning processes research of the Unit.
