New Manufacturer of Cotton Products & MAP Funds in Question

Randall Weiseman April 26, 2011 Cotton, Field Crops, Georgia, Peanuts

Today Tyron Spearman has news about the opening of a new manufacturing plant which is good news for the cotton industry here in the southeast, but news that may not be so good for the peanut industry when it comes to funding a certain program.

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