USDA Provides Targeted Assistance to Cotton Producers to Share in the Cost of Ginning One-Time Payments to Begin in July to Assist With 2016 Ginning Season

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) will provide an estimated $300 million in cost-share assistance payments to cotton producers through the new Cotton Ginning Cost-Share program, in order to expand and maintain the domestic marketing of cotton.

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