By Clint Thompson
Various factors are challenging cotton growers across the Southeast. The Georgia Cotton Commission (GCC) is using this week at the Sunbelt Ag Expo as an opportunity to meet with producers and industry experts to discuss ways to overcome those obstacles.
Taylor Sills, executive director of the GCC, discussed the commission’s role this week in Moultrie, Georgia.
“In addition to getting to see some of our farmers and farm leaders, we get to see our colleagues from other states and hear about what’s going on with them. I don’t know if it’s good or bad but the cotton industry in Georgia is not the only one to have problems,” Sills said. “We’re all in this fight together, whether it’s on crop issues, disaster, new ideas to promote our product to a new market; there’s a lot of great space here to visit with people and collaborate with folks across the (cotton) belt.
“Here in our booth, we have people from the National Cotton Council and the Cotton Board which of course administers the Cotton Research and Promotion Program and the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol. Growers, ginners, anybody that’s interested, they can come by here, and even though it’s the Georgia Cotton Commission tent, I see it as the hub, home base for the cotton industry for the week.”
The Sunbelt Ag Expo started on Tuesday and will continue through Thursday.