Cotton and Last Year's Farm Bill

With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.

The touch, the feel of cotton – the fabric of our lives. If you’d ever been to karaoke with me, you know to be grateful that I didn’t try to sing that one out.

Cotton is our focus of discussion today and, specifically, what the cotton industry is looking at as we still wait on last year’s farm bill. Dr. Gary Adams, President and CEO of the National Cotton Council, talks about this and other priorities for the group…

“We currently face some significant challenges as we look to pass a farm bill this year that meets the present and ongoing needs of our nation's producers and this is particularly important as we're seeing growers face increased cost of production and the volatility that they face each day in terms of both markets and weather. In addition, the Council will be working on priorities for the coming year that will support our efforts to improve the supply chain logistics and that affects our delivery of product to the customers whether they be domestic or international. And we're also carrying out actions aimed at maintaining the key crop protection products and technologies that our producers need.”

And as we wait, again on last year’s farm bill, complications are starting to arise in the worlds of intoxicating hemp and California’s Proposition 12. Again Dr. Gary Adams with the National Cotton Council