Let's Keep Improving
Hopie Brooks
Cargill Cotton
Memphis, Tenn
As cotton farmers in the United States, you are blessed with wonderful resources and opportunities. You have great land, wide open spaces, awesome resources including access to financing, high tech seed and fertilizer, machine picking, bale-by- bale USDA classification, covered warehouses and the best infrastructure for moving your product in the history of the world. These things may seem mundane to you, but most cotton farmers in the world don't have any of those things, and maybe 10 percent of farms in the world have all of them.
Think about that for a minute. You are competing with people who have only a fraction of the advantages you have: people who measure the width of their rows with a string, people who plow with an ox, people who harvest their cotton by hand, people who are at the mercy of their governments because their governments are the only buyer for their crops. All in all, despite the hardships that U.S. farmers face, I doubt there are many of you who would voluntarily trade places with your counterparts in other countries.
With all of these advantages, it is no wonder that U.S. cotton trades at a premium to other comparable growths in the world. Your cotton has very little if any contamination because of your harvesting practices; it has even running quality because of the bale-by-bale HVI class; it has almost no country damage issues because it is (almost) all stored indoors; it is almost always delivered on time because of the U.S. infrastructure and the reliability of American shippers, and it can be delivered year-round, again because of our infrastructure, storage facilities and the financial strength of U.S. cotton merchants.
source : cottonfarming
Hopie Brooks
Cargill Cotton
Memphis, Tenn
As cotton farmers in the United States, you are blessed with wonderful resources and opportunities. You have great land, wide open spaces, awesome resources including access to financing, high tech seed and fertilizer, machine picking, bale-by- bale USDA classification, covered warehouses and the best infrastructure for moving your product in the history of the world. These things may seem mundane to you, but most cotton farmers in the world don't have any of those things, and maybe 10 percent of farms in the world have all of them.
Think about that for a minute. You are competing with people who have only a fraction of the advantages you have: people who measure the width of their rows with a string, people who plow with an ox, people who harvest their cotton by hand, people who are at the mercy of their governments because their governments are the only buyer for their crops. All in all, despite the hardships that U.S. farmers face, I doubt there are many of you who would voluntarily trade places with your counterparts in other countries.
With all of these advantages, it is no wonder that U.S. cotton trades at a premium to other comparable growths in the world. Your cotton has very little if any contamination because of your harvesting practices; it has even running quality because of the bale-by-bale HVI class; it has almost no country damage issues because it is (almost) all stored indoors; it is almost always delivered on time because of the U.S. infrastructure and the reliability of American shippers, and it can be delivered year-round, again because of our infrastructure, storage facilities and the financial strength of U.S. cotton merchants.
source : cottonfarming
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