Decision soon on ‘complicated’ request for cottonseed oil subsidy

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is looking at every factor, including trade rules and budgetary effects, in the cotton industry’s request that he declare cottonseed oil eligible for the same subsidies offered to grains and soybeans. Congress created a new, and separate, cotton subsidy program in the 2014 farm law to resolve a WTO decision… » Read More

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