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Visiting between presentations at the 2020 Red River Crops Conference, Altus, Okla. The 2021 conference will be held virtually. Red River Crops Conference targets Southwest Oklahoma and Texas Rolling Plains producers. 2021 conference to be virtual.
The eighth annual Red River Crops Conference (RRCC) is set for Jan. 20-21, 2021. The conference, tailored to agricultural producers in the Texas Rolling Plains and Southwest Oklahoma, alternates its location each year between Texas and Oklahoma. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be virtual.
The RRCC is a joint effort of Extension personnel from Oklahoma State University Extension and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
in 2009 alone, they sold $709 million of nuts. california wine institute received $60 million in the past decade. in order to conduct wine tours, marketing and other events promoting $18 billion per year industry. cotton council international received $169 million in the last decade. some spent on indian reality tv show where contestants make clothes out of cotton. then there is the livestock genetics group which received $14 million since 1999. for marketing livestock semen. tom coburn is planning to offer amendment to farm bill to reduce funding. the point is nobody is measuring the effectiveness of the program. there is no metrics on it to say this is what it s done. when you look at the total share of world markets and how we have seen a decline we taught be questioning it. usda spokesman matt harig
this is a fashion television show that the government s got its arm in. it s on tv in india. it s called let s design. we have a clip of it. the show now, believe it or not, in one or two ways, twice removed, is sponsored by something called the cotton council which is a trade group. they get about $20 million in grants from the u.s. government, and they use the money to promote the u.s. cotton export business with a show. and why is that a problem? well, the truth is thandia has the second largest cotton industry in the world. it s much larger than the u.s. cotton industry, so basically we re trying to sell india on something they make more of than we do, right? got it. go ahead. no, you go. it s not just cotton though we re talking about here. it s all kinds of industries, and this is something that is called in the government the u.s. market access program.