Every bale, traceable to the acre it grew on.
Our cotton carries its record with it. Each lot is logged at the field edge, ginned locally, given a unique verifiable bale code, graded to European standards, and published to a traceability ledger. Below the field-to-bale steps, here is what we record and what you can confirm for yourself.
From field to certified bale.
Certified seed sown across registered fields each spring.
Soil, water and inputs logged per field for the season.
Picked and weighed; each lot tagged at the field edge.
Ginned locally; every bale gets a unique code.
Verified to EU standards and published to the ledger.
A unique code on every bale
When a lot is ginned locally, each bale it produces receives a single verifiable code in the form CF-2024-Δ7-08421 — year, producer group, and bale sequence. The code is printed on the bale, scanned at the ginnery, and bound to the field record behind it. No two bales share a code, and the code travels with the cotton through every handover.
What we record
Behind each code sits the full lifecycle of the lot: the registered fields and acreage it grew on, the certified non-GMO seed, the irrigation drawn under licence, the authorised inputs applied, and the harvest date and weight logged at the field edge. At ginning we add the ginning batch, the bale weight, and the HVI fibre metrics graded with the National Cotton Centre — strength, length, micronaire and grade.
Published to the ledger
Every step is written to a traceability ledger rather than left in a folder. As a lot moves from field to certified bale, its documentation — field log, ginning record and grading certificate — is published against its code. The ledger is the single shared record our growers, our buyers and our Quality and Certification department all read from.
What a buyer can verify
Enter a bale code and you can confirm it is genuine, see the producer group and season it came from, and read the HVI fibre metrics it was graded on. You can check which standards it meets — AGRO 2, EUcotton, Better Cotton, Green Cotton — and view the certificates and field-to-bale history behind it. No guesswork: the bale in your hand matches the record on the ledger.
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