Cotton Newsline: July 29, 2020

Earlier this week Senate Republican leadership introduced a wide-ranging package of bills developed to further respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The package includes an agriculture-specific provision that would provide $20 billion dollars in additional funding to the Secretary of Agriculture. This funding can be used to provide support to producers and growers of all commodities, and it also gives the secretary the discretion to provide assistance to agricultural processors that have also been impacted by the pandemic. Reece Langley, Vice President of Washington Operations for the National Cotton Council, joins us to share the Council’s interpretation of the legislative language and what it could mean for the U.S. cotton industry.