Lockney Co-op Gin under new ownership, now County Wide Cotton Gin

What could have been the end of a longtime cotton ginning operation in Lockney, instead has become an exciting new beginning. Last year, Clay Lowrance, president and general manager of Lockney Co-op Gin, was facing a challenging situation. “Through the years we’ve had a lot of our co-op guys retire or pass away,” he said. “It takes so much money to get into farming these days that there’s not…