Cotton was ‘not completely left out’ of 2014 farm law

At a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing early this month, the National Cotton Council, an industry trade group, said growers are “vulnerable to further instability” due to low cotton prices, and lack the protection offered to other producers by farm subsidies. Economist Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University says the industry understated the federal support that… » Read More

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