Locking In LDP Rates On Cotton Modules Faces Diligence
Growers monitor the January 14 20 week Adjusted World Price at 36.16 cents and an LDP rate of 15.84 cents per pound with a 2.16 cent drop, raising questions about locking in the higher LDP on ginned and unginned modules. The process hinges on maintaining Beneficial Interest, avoiding transfer of LDP benefits, and tracking bale by bale status across recourse Seed Cotton Loans, especially as crop shares and landowner payments complicate limits and distributions. New 2005 Standard Reinsurance Agreement rules also shift reporting of 2004 yields to insurers, urging producers to submit or instruct gin collection ahead of the March 15 policy deadline.
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Shawn Wade
Secretary of Agriculture
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FSA
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Usda Risk Management Agency
Texas Capital Highlights From Austin On Inauguration Week
Gov Perry urged lawmakers to get the job done as the 79th Legislature began. Lt Gov Dewhurst announced Senate Bill 2 a 23 point school finance plan backed by all upper chamber members proposing up to a thirty three percent local property tax cut and higher teacher salaries funded by new revenue estimates from the comptroller.
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Perry urges lawmakers to get it done on tax reform
Governor Perry pushes passage of a revamped franchise tax as Comptroller Strayhorn cites 64.7 billion dollars in available revenue, 6.4 billion more than two years ago. The Legislative Budget Board later proposes a 2006-07 budget of 134.4 billion with 63.5 billion from general revenue.
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Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Legislative Budget Board
Elizabeth Ames. Jones
San Antonio
Texas Railroad Commission
Screwworm Letter on Rural Policy and ATC Tricks
A satirical guest column riffing on The Screwtape Letters to critique rural policy. The narrator imagines Screwtape advising a new rural policy advocate, exposing the Agricultural Trump Card and the misallocation of farm subsidies, Farm Bill maneuvers, and lingering distrust among rural groups.
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ATC
Christmas story on front page delights Brownfield reader
A Brownfield resident thanks the News for its Christmas edition, praising the front page Christmas story from the King James Version and saying she enjoys the paper twice weekly, dropping tasks to read it when delivered.
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Brownfield
Elwana Hudson
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