Thursday, 5 January 2006: 2:00 PM-5:30 PM | |||
Salon A/B (Marriott Riverwalk Hotel) | |||
Marketing, Policy, and Trade Paper Session | |||
This session presents papers covering topics involving cotton price, policy, trade, risk management, and industry issues. The session will conclude with a panel of discussants and moderated group discussion. | |||
Presiding: | John R. Robinson, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX | ||
2:00 PM | Texas-Oklahoma Producer Cotton Market Summary: 2004/2005 Mohamadou L. Fadiga, Sukant K. Misra and Don E. Ethridge, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX | ||
2:15 PM | U.S. Pima - California's New Flagship Cotton Matthew Laughlin, J. G. Boswell Company, Pasadena, CA | ||
2:30 PM | Testing the Waters of a High-value Marketing Pool J. Mark Welch and Conrad P. Lyford, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX | ||
2:45 PM | Predicting cotton yields and production with USDA subjective crop condition data Seth D. Meyer, FAPRI Cotton Analyst University of Missouri, Columbia, MO | ||
3:00 PM | Performance of the 2002 Farm Bill and Likely Challenges for 2007 Carol Skelly, USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board, Washington, DC | ||
3:15 PM | Analysis of the reform of the EU cotton subsidy regime (working paper) Armelle Gručre, International Cotton Advisory Committee, Washington, DC | ||
3:30 PM | Break | ||
4:00 PM | CAFTA-US Textile and Cotton Trade Prospects: The China Effect Georgia Clark1, Jaime Malaga1 and Justin Baker2, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX | ||
4:15 PM | The Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy on World Cotton Markets Stephen A. MacDonald, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washingon, DC | ||
4:30 PM | Total Quality Management for the U.S. Cotton Industry Conrad P. Lyford, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX | ||
4:45 PM | Panel Discussion Carl G. Anderson, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, College Station, TX, Wally L. Darneille, Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, Lubbock, TX and Cotton Merchant, tba, tba, TX | ||
Sponsor: | Cotton Economics and Marketing Conference |
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