Permanent Bale Identification (PBI)

A system developed by the cotton industry that enables a unique number and standard barcode to accompany each bale of cotton from the gin to the textile mill. It includes numbers for the classing office, the gin code, and the bale identification.

Learn more about PBI tags and U.S. cotton traceability.

General
Pre-Planting
Planting/Early Growing
Growth
Harvesting
Ginning
Classing