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Attention Required - Mismatched PBI Tags and AMS Sample Coupons Instances of mismatched PBI tags and sample coupons continue, despite an extensive communications effort conducted during the 2017 ginning season and again before the 2018 ginning season by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Cotton and Tobacco Program, the National Cotton Council and others. Significant [...]

We have discussed the WH-516 form at all our meetings for several years, and it is important that you are providing this form to your workers at the time of recruitment.  Filling this form out properly is important, and we have spent a good amount of time discussing the form and our answers on the [...]

As reported earlier, the National Cotton Council, in cooperation with several other industry partners, has developed a comprehensive video designed to help producers and ginners identify potential sources of plastic contamination and methods of eliminating plastic contamination.  The Video is now available in English and Spanish.    This video will provide producers and ginners with [...]

FDA Registrations must be renewed between October 1 and December 31 on even numbered years.  It is now time to renew your registration.  Click here to access the FDA web site in order to renew your registration. Please be aware that there are companies sending out mailers that look like they are from FDA.  If [...]

FDA Registrations must be renewed between October 1 and December 31 on even numbered years.  This is coming up soon, and we will be sending out more information on this topic as the deadline nears.  Since this renewal is done online, it would be a really good idea to check your account now to be [...]

The National Cotton Council, in cooperation with several other industry partners, has developed a comprehensive video designed to help producers and ginners identify potential sources of plastic contamination and methods of eliminating plastic contamination.  Click here to see the video.   This video will provide producers and ginners with detailed information on how to eliminate [...]

We have received reports that some consultants are calling gins and encouraging the gins to get a predominate use study done for sales tax purposes.  Cotton gins are exempt from paying sales tax on natural gas and electricity as a processor and no gin should pay sales tax on natural gas or electricity in the [...]

We have received several requests for a copy of the District Meeting Power Point presentation.  In response, we have posted the presentation on the members-only page of our web site.  Click here for a direct link to the file.  Be patient when downloading - it is a very large file! During the district meetings, we [...]

A week ago, we forwarded a poster from NCGA that was originally sent from TAMA.  This poster is in English and Spanish, and shows the proper methods for removing the covering from round modules.  Unfortunately, there were errors in the Spanish version of the poster.  To get the corrected version of the posters, you can look [...]

We received a poster from NCGA earlier this week that was originally sent from TAMA.  This poster is in English and Spanish, and shows the proper methods for removing the covering from round modules.  TCGA will be handing this poster out at the District Meetings this year, and it is also available on our web [...]