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 [...]
Cotton gins are required to submit the data from their 2017 OSHA 300A forms by July 1 2018. With the deadline about 30 days away, take a few minutes now to go ahead and get your data entered into their system. Click Here for the link to the electronic reporting site, or you can to [...]
Eight gins were cited by the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division in 2017. These cases were settled this week. There are three main items cited in these cases that every gin needs to be sure they are doing. The first is that all migrant workers must be given a completed WH-516 form at [...]
TCGA Staff was treated to a unique experience last Friday. Tom Wancho, the Exhibits Planner for the Bullock Texas State History Museum invited us over to see the cotton gin that is displayed in the museum. This gin stand and feeder is on loan to the museum courtesy of our own Dan Taylor. David [...]
Bill Thomas has let us know that summer pricing is rising significantly for 2018, due to three large coal plants shutting down in ERCOT. If you are in ERCOT, buy your energy on the open market, and do not already have a contract that goes through the summer, you should probably get in touch with [...]
USDA Released the following statement on Saturday: USDA Helps Cotton Producers Maintain, Expand Domestic Market (MEMPHIS, TN, March 3, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced at the 66th Annual Mid-South Farm and Gin Show the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking action to assist cotton producers through a Cotton [...]
So far, we are in communication with nine gins that have been inspected by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor this year. If you have been inspected by DOL this year, and have not communicated with us, please let us know right away. Hopefully, DOL has completed their inspections at this [...]
