date:May 14, 2013
r. Nationally, cotton planting could be off 19% from 2012, to 10 million acres.
There's a reason we've grown cotton in Mississippi for 150 to 175 years, Murphy said. Our climate is well adapted to it, but it's an industry with a cost of production we've had to move away from.
Because of a World Trade Organization challenge to U.S. cotton programs by Brazil, cotton has its own separate program in the crop insurance title of the Senate bill. Called the Stacked Income Protection Program, it's a sha