NCC Defending Effective Cotton Program on Multiple Fronts 04/03/09
West Texas cotton producers were reassured today that the U.S. cotton industry is clearly communicating to lawmakers that the new farm law does not need to be re-opened for budget savings.
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Backgrounder - USDA Enforcement of AGI Requirement (96k pdf) 03/27/09
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Limitations and Eligibility Criteria for Farm Program Benefits 03/27/09
Limitations and Eligibility Criteria for Farm Program Benefits
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NCC Summary -- Final Rule Implementing the '08-12 Cotton Programs 11/07/08
The NCC summarized selected provisions of the final rule implementing the Upland/ELS Cotton Programs for '08-12.
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Cotton Program Changes for Loans, Loan Deficiency Payments, Upland Cotton, and Extra Long Staple Cotton (82k pdf) 11/05/08
The Federal Register published the CCC's notice of its revising
regulations as required by the Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
(the '08 Farm Bill) to administer loan
and payment programs for upland
cotton and extra-long staple (ELS)
cotton producers and establishing new
regulations to specify payment
provisions for domestic users of upland
cotton. The NCC posted its summary of selected provisions (Members Only).
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Letter to Agriculture Secretary Regarding Farm Law Implementation Regulation 10/24/08
The NCC, the National Council of Textile Organizations, AMCOT, the American Cotton Shippers Association and the American Cotton Producers conveyed serious concern about the delay in publishing the regulation necessary to implement the new farm law.
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USDA Issues Final '07-Crop CCPs For Upland Cotton 10/10/08
On Oct. 10, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced that USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. will issue $384 million in final '07 counter-cyclical payments to eligible producers with enrolled upland cotton base acres in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program.
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Congressional Members Urge Secretary to Minimize Unnecessary Changes in Farm Programs' Operation 09/30/08
A bipartisan group of Cotton Belt Senators and House members, led by Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Representatives Etheridge (D-NC) and Emerson (R-MO), has written Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer to stress that it is inappropriate and unnecessary for USDA to cause serious disruptions in current farming operations by proposing unwarranted changes in the way it makes actively-engaged-in-farming determinations.
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Federal Register Notice Published on '08 Farm Law (51k pdf) 07/16/08
USDA published a notice in the July 14 edition of the Federal Register announcing that "... with respect to the DCP, marketing assistance loans, loan deficiency payments under Title I of the 2008 Farm Bill, and CRP under Title II of the 2008 Farm Bill CCC will implement payment limitations and eligibility provisions for the 2008 crop, fiscal or program year based on the current regulation in 7 CFR part 1400, as it applied to the 2007 crop or 2007 crop year."
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Federal Cotton Program Works, Expenditures Declining 07/10/08
Criticisms of U.S. cotton farm programs are unwarranted. The truth: U.S. farm programs have operated as designed, supporting farmers’ incomes in times of low prices while allowing them to react to market signals.
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USDA Issues Advance Direct Payments 07/07/08
USDA announced that up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments will be distributed to US farmers beginning on July 7. |
