This week's Cotton Newsline is 4 cuts.All cuts are Robbie Minnich, Senior Government Relations Representative for the National Cotton Council.
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Facing severe time restriction and difficult budget and trade limitations, U.S. cotton producer leaders boldly guided the development of and industry-wide approval of dramatically new farm policy.Robbie Minnich, Senior Government Relations Representative for the National Cotton Council, says they believed this federal cotton program adjustment would immediately strengthen U.S. cotton producers' ability to manage risk by making an affordable revenue-based crop insurance program available for purchase.
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Minnich says ACP and NCC leaders, along with NCC staff, had been monitoring the political and budgetary environment in our nation's capital.
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According to Minnich after extensive analysis and a thorough debate, the task force made a unanimous recommendation to the ACP for a new cotton program direction.
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Minnich says the ACP adopted their task force's recommendations. Soon after, the recommendations were adopted by the NCC's Farm Policy Task Force and then the NCC Board of Directors.
