Cotton gins in Queensland are working around the clock to process this year's crop.

Wet weather did cause some problems, but the season has turned out a lot better than last year, when many farmers lost their crop to flooding.

Rick Jones, who works for Queensland Cotton's central area gin ,says it's struggling to keep up with demand.
"The yields were better than last year but it still hasn't been great. They are still only averaging three to three-and-a-half bales to the acre," he said.

"This year, though, the ginning is probably more seasonal, in that everybody is trying to pick and get the cotton off as quick as possible.

"In the central Queensland area. there's probably going to be up close to 200,000 bales. The gin yards are filling up."

Mr Jones says many growers are still reeling from last year's flood damage and were more conservative with forward selling.

"I think most growers have lost a lot of confidence, it's pretty hard for them cashflow-wise last year with not having a crop, having to do flood repairs, having to pay out contracts and everything else," he said.

"Generally most growers are pretty optimistic people, but you can feel that to miss a year like last year where they could have grown a good yield and high prices and it was that once in a lifetime situation."