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Each year, some 64,000 acres of cotton, corn and peanuts are harvested in Calhoun County Georgia. The increasing importance of ag export markets makes U.S. trade policy an important issue to these farmers, says producer Mike Newberry.
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Unfair trade rules and restrictive payment limits can stall a healthy U.S. economy, directly affecting Newberry and the additional 118 farms in this Southwest Georgia county.
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Calhoun County farms account for nearly 26 million dollars in sales. Don Phillips, manager of Southern Agricultural Services in Arlington, GA, wants Congress to know that rural America is counting on them.
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In Congressional testimony earlier this year, National Cotton Council Chairman Woody Anderson, a Texas cotton producer, stressed that the U.S. farm law’s cotton program is WTO compliant and that the cotton program was costing far less than was projected when it was enacted in 2002.
