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It is time for Gin School!

Gin School Registration is now open!   Register early, as the Lubbock school does tend to fill up early!   As always, the Lubbock Gin School is just prior to the TCGA Gin Show, so come to Lubbock and make a week of it! Click on the link below to register for the 2025 NCGA Gin Schools.  [...]

By |2025-02-21T16:26:30-06:00February 23rd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on It is time for Gin School!

2025 Ginner Planting Intentions Survey

As has been the case for several years, Ginners are again being requested to assist the National Cotton Council with their planting intentions survey.   Please take a few minutes to review and complete this important survey by clicking on the link below: Ginners Planting Intentions survey for 2025:   https://www.cotton.org/survey/25ginacres

By |2025-01-07T08:51:31-06:00January 7th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on 2025 Ginner Planting Intentions Survey

Beneficial Ownership Reporting Back in Effect!

Due to a federal Court of Appeals ruling on December 23, the beneficial ownership reporting is back in effect.  The new deadline to report is January 13, 2025.   If you have not already done so, please log onto the BOE website, and get your registration done right away.  Here is the link:  BOI E-FILING This is [...]

By |2024-12-26T08:30:29-06:00December 26th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Beneficial Ownership Reporting Back in Effect!

National Cotton Council Action Alert

As the year ends, time is rapidly running out for passage of an economic assistance package in Washington.  The National Cotton Council is requesting all of our help right away.  Please take a moment to review the information below and to contact your congressman. The National Cotton Council urges all members to contact their Congressman [...]

By |2024-12-05T10:31:05-06:00December 5th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on National Cotton Council Action Alert

It is Time to Complete Your Filing for the Corporate Transparency Act

It is now time to complete your required filings under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).   The court challenges seem to be completed, and the rule is still in effect, with a deadline of January 1, 2025, which is prior to the time when we will change administrations.  There are substantial fines for failing to follow [...]

By |2024-11-18T11:33:12-06:00November 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on It is Time to Complete Your Filing for the Corporate Transparency Act

NCC and the USDA a 4-Bale Module Averaging Pilot Project

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 [...]

By |2024-08-23T08:16:55-05:00August 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on NCC and the USDA a 4-Bale Module Averaging Pilot Project

  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 [...]

By |2024-03-12T16:06:35-05:00March 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on

Updated – CCC-809 Reminder to Gins

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, [...]

By |2024-03-08T10:25:49-06:00March 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Updated – CCC-809 Reminder to Gins

EPA Publishes New PM NAAQS Standard

EPA has announced their new PM NAAQS Standard.  As expected, they have significantly lowered the primary PM2.5 annual limit from 12 ug/m3 to 9 ug/m3.  The good news is that they did not change the primary 24-hour PM2.5 or PM10 limits, or any of the secondary limits. We are digging through the details of this [...]

By |2024-02-09T10:25:20-06:00February 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on EPA Publishes New PM NAAQS Standard
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