Obtaining assistance for cotton producers who were essentially left out of the 2014 farm bill continues to be an arduous process, one that is consuming a lot of face time in the halls of Congress.
That process moved a step closer to reality when the House Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee included funding for the ginning cost-share and cottonseed as an oilseed programs in its FY2018 spending proposal.
Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., the subcommittee’s chairman, discussed the next steps for those pieces of legislation and other cotton programs in a speech at the National Cotton Council’s Mid-Year Board of Directors meeting in Memphis, Tenn.
For more on Rep. Aderholt’s speech, click on http://www.deltafarmpress.com/cotton/farm-appropriations-bills-will-bear-close-watching-months-ahead.
