New Home cotton farmer featured on NPR's Planet Money

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Driving back from Abbott last night, I was catching up on podcasts. Aside from being a math nerd, many of you probably don't realize I started college as a double major in chemical and petroleum engineering but ended up with an economics degree... I like to listen to Planet Money. It is straight forward and usually very interesting. Last night I caught up with one from October 29th...

In it was New Home cotton farmer Dahlin Hancock and a discussion on cotton subsidies vs. the Brazilians.

"They keep coming to the table ... always bitching and complaining." —Dahlin Hancock, Texas cotton farmer, on the Brazilians.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/ ... otton-wars

You can listen to the podcast there
 
granger said:
Aside from being a math nerd, many of you probably don't realize I started college as a double major in chemical and petroleum engineering but ended up with an economics degree... I like to listen to Planet Money. It is straight forward and usually very interesting. Last night I caught up with one from October 29th...

What a coincidence, I stumbled into an economics class by mistake once while matriculating at John Tarleton Institute. I ran out as soon as I woke up.
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Old Bearkat":ea5xtj1v said:
Given that the price of cotton is at a 140 year high, the subsidies will not be needed this year
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Wanna bet? There's gonna be a bunch o' Congresscritters that will fight to keep them ...
 
lifegatesports":lrzqsd6m said:
Old Bearkat":lrzqsd6m said:
Given that the price of cotton is at a 140 year high, the subsidies will not be needed this year
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Wanna bet? There's gonna be a bunch o' Congresscritters that will fight to keep them ...
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Yeah, I will not argue that. I just hope they will at least follow the law and let them go away for as long as the price stays above the floor.........
 
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