Christmas day in Memphis, Tennessee, we had a picnic outside in my yard. The temperature was in the mid 70's. As this is being written, we are in the midst of a blizzard with temperatures having dropped 300 in two hours. Today, January the eighth, in Texas there still are over 1,300,000 bales in the field unpicked. At this rate we may still be harvesting cotton in March. We never know what to expect in this business. The crop in West Texas this year will have less than 15% premium micronaire. Why didn't you at the research stations advise us that this would be the result rather than having to wait until after harvest? The Memphis/Central Belt crop produced 47% below low middling due to many weeks of excess rain. Three months after the beginning of harvest, why haven't the utilization researchers given us the spinning, bleaching and dyeing results to assist us in merchandising these varieties?