Broadcast Newsline: December 11, 2009
Senior Agriculture Specialist at Capital One Bank, Leo Nelson, said Louisiana cotton producers, after enduring Hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008, were hit again in 2009 with above average rainfall at harvest causing substantial costs to this season’s cotton crop.
This week’s Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts. All cuts are Leo Nelson, Senior Agriculture Specialist at Capital One Bank.
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Senior Agriculture Specialist at Capital One Bank, Leo Nelson, said Louisiana cotton producers, after enduring Hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008, were hit again in 2009 with above average rainfall at harvest causing substantial costs to this season’s cotton crop.
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Nelson, a member of the American Bankers Association’s Agriculture Committee, said his bank recognizes that farming is a capital intensive industry and intends to work with all of its producer customers to identify any issues this year may have created.
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Nelson said the timely disaster assistance being proposed in the recently introduced House and Senate bills would “mean a tremendous amount to our area.”
