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  [ Recorded presentation ] 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  [ Recorded presentation ] 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  [ Recorded presentation ]
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  [ Recorded presentation ] Carol Skelly, USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board, Washington, DC
3:15 PM
Analysis of the reform of the EU cotton subsidy regime (working paper)  [ Recorded presentation ] Armelle Gručre, International Cotton Advisory Committee, Washington, DC
3:30 PMBreak
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  [ Recorded presentation ]
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 PMPanel 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
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[ Recorded presentation ] Recordings available online