Plains Cotton Growers Inc. (PCG) adamantly opposes any supplemental spending package that abstains from providing meaningful short-term assistance to farmers.
Cotton producers will lose as much as $300 per acre on this year’s harvest due to soaring production costs and low market prices. This will be the third year that the Texas High Plains cotton industry suffers financial losses due to low production, high input costs, inflation and high interest rates.
Without economic assistance from Congress, many farm fami-lies will not be able to secure financing to farm in 2025.
“It saddens me that we’ve resorted to playing politics rather than taking care of our constituents,” said PCG President Travis Mires. “It’s going to be difficult to ‘Make America Great Again’ without our country’s ability to produce its own food and fiber. It’s disappointing that Congressional leadership isn’t setting the country up for success as we enter a new Administration. If producer economic assistance is not included in the supplemental spending package, we will have no choice but to oppose any spending package proposed at the end of this lame-duck session.”