In partnership with the National Cotton Council (NCC), USDA is piloting a program for the 2024-2025 cotton crop that will allow bales to be shipped in four-bale groupings that use averaged quality data. These groupings of four bales or multiples of four bales will carry the same official USDA classing data for all eight quality [...]
Date: March 6, 2024 To: Cotton Ginners From: Chris Berry, Chairman Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee Subject: Phase-Out of Paper Hang PBI Tags The Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee (JCIBPC), chaired by Chris Berry, a Wellman, TX ginner, had its 2024 Annual Meeting in Memphis on February 28th. During this meeting the [...]
Here is an updated version of the email sent yesterday, with functional links. Date: March 5, 2024 To: Cotton Ginners From: Chris Berry, Chairman Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee Subject: Reminder – USDA Commodity Credit Corporation Form CCC-809, Cooperating Ginner's Bagging and Bale Ties Certification and Agreement As the season begins, [...]
Reminder letter from chairman of the Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee: Click here for the PDF link to letter
