This week’s Cotton Newsline is 4 cuts. All cuts are Taylor Slade, cotton and peanut producer in Williamston, NC.
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If estate taxes are allowed to be reinstated at the beginning of 2011, with only a $1 million exemption and top rate of 55 percent, Taylor Slade, cotton and peanut producer in Williamston, NC says U.S. agriculture will be affected very negatively.
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Slade points out that $1 million does not cover much farm land.
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Slade says all commodities were represented at a press conference Tuesday to urge Congress to act on estate tax during the lame-duck session.
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Slade says the National Cotton Council supports the complete elimination of estate taxes but the short term may require compromise.
