USDA Cotton Program Picks Spotfire for Accuracy, Efficiency Employee excitement, and faster, more-efficient, lower-cost operations
USDA Cotton Program Picks Spotfire for Accuracy, Efficiency Employee excitement, and faster, more-efficient, lower-cost operations
2 PagesUSDA Cotton Program Picks Spotfire for Accuracy, Efficiency Employee excitement, and faster, more-efficient, lower-cost operations CHALLENGE “We’re responsible for grading all cotton grown in the United States,” says Darryl Earnest, deputy administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program. “The quality grade on every pound of cotton is used to market it around the world. The faster we get cotton graded, the faster it gets to the supply chain. “To ensure all our instruments were accurate and consistent, we would get daily grading results from offices nationwide, then manually develop, read, and analyze reports on the data. Every day we would randomly select samples we had tested and ship them overnight to headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, retest
