Cotton Newsline: March 14, 2007

This week the Senate Appropriations Committee will take up the supplemental appropriations bill.

This week the Senate Appropriations Committee will take up the supplemental appropriations bill which is primarily funding for the wars. According to Robbie Minnich, Senior Government Relations Representative for the National Cotton Council it will also include an agriculture disaster assistance program for crop losses in 2005 and 2006.

Minnich says it appears to be a traditional disaster program.

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