The application and nomination forms must be turned in to Jance McRae, The Cotton Foundation, P.O. Box 12284, Memphis, Tenn., 38182. Applicants must be U.S. cotton industry members between the ages of 27 and 40. The 10-member class, consisting of one producer from each of the major production regions and one person from each of the other six industry segments, will be chosen by an industrywide selection committee in August. The 1997-98 class will be the 15th in the Cotton Leadership Program, which is sponsored by a grant from DuPont Agricultural Products to The Cotton Foundation. Each class participates in six week-long sessions throughout the year.
Members receive insight on cotton organizations, practices, and policy development.
Class members also meet with decision-makers in Washington and get a firsthand look at some of the latest cotton research and innovative production and processing techniques across the Cotton Belt. Levelland is 30 miles west of Lubbock. Wheat crop still much bigger than past two years The Texas wheat crop was expected to be a bumper crop of about 150 million bushels before the freakish late-April freeze. Instead, it is projected at 103.6 million millions - about 50 million bushels lower than the super crop earlier anticipated. In fact, it will be 37 percent above the 1996 and also the 1995 Texas wheat crop.