Active In All Arena
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
In another arena, industry support for the new Derivatives Markets Transparency and Account-ability Act of 2009 was conveyed in testimony at a House Agriculture Commit-tee hearing. Simultaneously, the NCC asked the Commodity Futures Trading Com-mission chairman to publish its investigation findings into the March 2008 cotton futures market events. The NCC also urged a House Agriculture Committee panel to continue its oversight of risk management, including the federal crop insurance program, to ensure a meaningful tool is available for producers. NCC Chairman Jay Hardwick recently communicated to lawmakers about the weather's devastating effects on the 2009 Mid-South cotton crop.
What about regulations and education?
The NCC is active on numerous regulatory matters – from food safety to Fomesafen, the latter an important product for managing resistant pigweed in the Mid-South and Southeast. On food safety, NCC members were urged to convey serious concerns to their Congressional members regarding a House bill that would have significantly expanded the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate and oversee on-farm production activities. In anticipation of Senate action on food safety, the NCC and 25 other agricultural groups sent a letter to a Senate committee recommending or endorsing certain provisions of S. 510.
source : cottonfarming
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
In another arena, industry support for the new Derivatives Markets Transparency and Account-ability Act of 2009 was conveyed in testimony at a House Agriculture Commit-tee hearing. Simultaneously, the NCC asked the Commodity Futures Trading Com-mission chairman to publish its investigation findings into the March 2008 cotton futures market events. The NCC also urged a House Agriculture Committee panel to continue its oversight of risk management, including the federal crop insurance program, to ensure a meaningful tool is available for producers. NCC Chairman Jay Hardwick recently communicated to lawmakers about the weather's devastating effects on the 2009 Mid-South cotton crop.
What about regulations and education?
The NCC is active on numerous regulatory matters – from food safety to Fomesafen, the latter an important product for managing resistant pigweed in the Mid-South and Southeast. On food safety, NCC members were urged to convey serious concerns to their Congressional members regarding a House bill that would have significantly expanded the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate and oversee on-farm production activities. In anticipation of Senate action on food safety, the NCC and 25 other agricultural groups sent a letter to a Senate committee recommending or endorsing certain provisions of S. 510.
source : cottonfarming
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