Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 4/6/17


The cotton industry isn’t throwing in the towel, so to speak, on the designation of cottonseed as an “other” oilseed as part of its ongoing effort to get the fiber back into Title I of the 2017 or 2018 farm bill. As most growers know, cotton was left out of the commodity title of 2014 farm bill in an effort to avoid further political controversy and trade retaliation because of the WTO case brought by Brazil against the U.S. cotton program.

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