PLEASE SEE FORWARDED MESSAGE BELOW FROM NCC: Dear Ginner, To allow the NCC to have the most complete planting intentions information, gins are being asked to participate in a short confidential online survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KL85XBM Gins are in constant contact with their producers and generally have a good idea as to the next season’s planting prospects. [...]
Some of you may have recently received an email from the OSHA Office of Statistical Analysis. This email details a login procedure change on the OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA). The ITA is the database where you annually report injuries at your facility that you summarized on your OSHA 300A each year. This information is [...]
We are receiving calls from multiple gins in West Texas concerning Housing Inspections by the Texas Dept of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA). We do not normally see TDHCA inspectors making random inspections. These inspections are usually done by Wage and Hour for H2A purposes. TDHCA apparently has a new supervisor instructing inspectors to perform [...]
On April 8 2022, OSHA launched a National Emphasis Program for Heat Related Illness and Injury. This NEP requires each OSHA region to increase the number of heat inspections by 100 percent over the past five-year average. OSHA will target workplaces in more than 70 industries at high risk for heat exposure, including agriculture, warehouses [...]
Message from Kody Bessent - CEO of Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. It is with great sadness that I pass along news that Johnny Anderson who served Plains Cotton Growers for over 31 years as the Director of Field Services until his retirement in 2017 unfortunately passed away yesterday evening. Please keep Johnny’s family in your [...]
WE PLAN TO COMPILE AND RELEASE THE COST DATA INFORMATION IN MAY. PLEASE COMPLETE THIS COST SURVEY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The USDA and NCGA developed an electronic version of the Gin Cost Survey. We would very much appreciate your participation in this survey. It will make the results more accurate and meaningful. The gin’s [...]
Posting below is from Harrison Ashley with NCGA: USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has announced that with COVID numbers continuing to fall, the ARS ginning laboratories in Las Cruces, NM, and Stoneville, MS, can host the remaining 2022 ginner schools. Ginners, gin managers and superintendents are urged to register for the Western Ginners School on [...]
PLEASE COMPLETE THE NCGA COST SURVEYS. THIS INFORMATION WILL REPLACE THE TCGA COST SURVEYS DONE IN PAST YEARS. The USDA and NCGA developed an electronic version of the Gin Cost Survey. We plan to replace the normal TCGA Cost Survey with this version and then retrieve the Texas Gin information as needed. We would very [...]
As we mentioned in an earlier posting this month, the Department of Labor visited at least one cotton gin under a site-specific targeting program inspection. The OSHA inspector was given a listing of facilities and asked to look at OSHA 300 and 300A forms and the DART rate for those companies. A specific issue came [...]
PLEASE COMPLETE THE NCGA COST SURVEYS. THIS INFORMATION WILL REPLACE THE TCGA COST SURVEYS DONE IN PAST YEARS. The USDA and NCGA developed an electronic version of the Gin Cost Survey. We plan to replace the normal TCGA Cost Survey with this version and then retrieve the Texas Gin information as needed. We would very [...]
